Gulf Winds-Joan Baez

[00:00.00] 作词 : Baez [00:00.93]Artist：joan baez [00:01.74]Songs Title：gulf winds [00:03.42] [00:26.68]It's only when the high winds blow that I wish my hair was long [00:33.61]Sailing through the autumn leaves singing an ancient song [00:41.65]Or falling in love in the streets at night at the edge of a local square [00:48.58]It's only that I'm here tonight thinking I was there [00:59.21] [01:00.14]There are high winds on the pier tonight, my soul departs from me [01:09.29]Striding like Thalia's ghost south on the murky sea [01:17.40]And into midnight's tapestry she fades, ragged and wild [01:24.14]Searching down her ancestry in the costume of a Persian child [01:37.97]And gulf winds bring me flying fish that shine in the crescent moon [01:47.26]Show me the horizon where the dawn will break anew [01:53.01]And cool me here on this lonely pier where the heron are flying low [01:59.86]Echo the songs my father knew in the towns of Mexico [02:12.94] [02:19.05]When I was young my eyes were wise, my father was good to me [02:26.06]Instead of having a flock of sons he had two other girls and me [02:33.92]And if we had used our Spanish names, here's the way they'd run [02:40.60]Thalia, Margarita and Juanita, I'm the middle one. [02:53.27]The screen door kept the demons in as we moved from town to town [03:00.19]It's hard to be a princess in the States when your skin is brown [03:08.12]And mama smoothed my worried brow as I leaned on the kitchen door [03:17.30]Why do you carry the weight, she said, of the world and maybe more? [03:31.34]And gulf winds bring me flying fish that shine in the crescent moon [03:40.13]Show me the horizon where the dawn will break anew [03:45.81]And cool me here on this lonely pier where the heron are flying low [03:52.91]Echo the songs my father knew in the towns of Mexico [04:05.52] [04:12.19]My grandfathers were ministers and it came on down the line [04:21.05]My father preached in his parents' church when he was ten years and nine [04:29.10]And mama dressed in parishoners' clothes and didn't believe in hell [04:38.21]Her daddy fought the DAR, if he'd lived I'd have known him well [04:49.51]They said go find a Sunday School, we must have tried them all [04:56.56]I never stole from the silver plate, my sisters had more gall [05:04.25]One preacher said sing out loud and clear, it's the only life you've got [05:13.49]And the next one said be good on earth, you've another life at the feet of God [05:28.77] [05:29.46]And gulf winds bring me flying fish that shine in the crescent moon [05:38.70]Show me the horizon where the dawn will break anew [05:44.19]And cool me here on this lonely pier where the heron are flying low [05:51.11]Echo the songs my father knew in the towns of Mexico [06:02.47] [06:10.46]My father turned down many a job just to give us something real [06:19.52]It's hard to be a scientist in the States when you've got ideals [06:27.39]And mama kept the budget book, she kept the garden, too [06:36.43]Bought fish from the man on Thursday, fed all of us and strangers, too [06:47.30] [06:48.06]But time will pass and so, alas, will most of what we know [06:57.10]Though tonight my memory's eye is clear as the story's being told [07:04.98]And I'll play ball with the underdog and sit with the child who's wrong [07:11.72]Be still when the earth is silent and sing when my strength is gone [07:25.64]And gulf winds bring me flying fish that shine in the crescent moon [07:36.02]Show me the horizon where the dawn will break anew [07:41.57]And cool me here on this lonely pier where the heron are flying low [07:49.74]Echo the songs my father knew in the towns of Mexico [08:01.47] [08:11.52]Now father's going to India sometime in the fall [08:20.38]They tried to stay together but you just can't do it all [08:28.43]I'll think about him if he goes, there's a little grey in his hair [08:37.48]Though not much because he's Mexican, they don't age, they just prepare [08:49.58] [08:50.21]And if he goes to India I'll miss him most of all [08:59.32]He'll see me in the mudlarks' face, hear me in the beggar's call [09:07.55]And mama will stay home, I guess, and worry if she did wrong [09:16.66]And I'll say a prayer for both of them and sing them both my song [09:28.26] [09:31.57]And gulf winds bring me flying fish that shine in the crescent moon [09:40.87]Show me the horizon where the dawn will break anew [09:46.11]And cool me here on this lonely pier where the heron are flying low [09:54.60]Echo the songs my father knew in the towns of Mexico