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Four strong winds that blow lonely,
Seven seas that run high,
All these things that don't change,
Come what may.
But our good times are all gone,
And I'm bound for moving on.
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way.
Think I'll go out to Alberta,
Weather's good there in the fall.
Got some friends that I can go to working for,
Still I wish you'd change your mind.
If I asked you one more time,
But we've been through that a hundred times or more.
Four strong winds that blow lonely,
Seven seas that run high,
All these things that don't change,
Come what may.
But our good times are all gone,
And I'm bound for moving on.
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way.
If I get there before the snow flies,
And if things are going good,
You could meet me if I send you down the fare.
But if you wait until it's winter,
It will be no good,
'Cause that wind sure can blow way out there.
Four strong winds that blow lonely,
Seven seas that run high,
All these things that don't change,
Come what may.
But our good times are all gone,
And I'm bound for moving on.
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way.
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way.
Recorded by Ian and Sylvia Tyson (Four Strong Winds, Vanguard Records, 1963; Ian And Sylvia, 1964).
Notes from Canoe.ca: Modern folk classic that helped put Canadian duo Ian and Sylvia Tyson on the folk map. It was recorded by dozens of artists in the sixties, and revitalized years later by Neil Young of Toronto, Ontario (Comes A Time, 1978).
The YouTube video above features an excellent cover performance of Neil Young's 1978 variant by Ed Mulrooney of Grand Falls-Windsor, NL.
See more songs by Ed Mulrooney.
Note: Chosen in 2005 by CBC Radio listeners as the greatest Canadian song of all time on the series 50 Tracks: The Canadian Version. Also sung each year on the last night of the Edmonton (Alberta) Folk Music Festival.
