It's only when the high winds blow that I wish my was long Sailing the autumn leaves singin' an ancient song Or in love in the streets at night at the edge of a local square It's only that I'm here tonight I was there
There's high winds on the pier tonight, my soul departs me like Thalia's Ghost south on the murky sea And into midnight's she fades, ragged and wild Searching down her in the costume of a Persian child
So Gulf winds bring me flying fish, that shine in the crescent Show me the horizon where the dawn will break And cool me here on this lonely pier, the heron are flying low Echo the songs my knew in the towns of Mexico
When I was young my were wise, my father was good to me Instead of having a of sons he had two other girls and me And if we'd used our Spanish names, the way they'd run Thalia, Margarita and Juanita, I'm the one
The screen door kept the Demons in as we moved town to town hard to be a princess in the States when your skin is brown And Mama smoothed my worried brow, as I leaned on the door "Why do you carry the weight", she "Of the and maybe more"
Gulf bring me flying fish, that shine in the crescent moon Show me the horizon where the will break anew And cool me here on this lonely pier, the heron are flying low Echo the songs my fathers knew in the of Mexico
My grandfathers were ministers and it came on down the My Father in his parents' church When he was ten years and And Mama dressed in clothes and didn't believe in Hell Her daddy fought the DAR, if he'd lived, I'd have known him
They said, "Go find a School", we must have tried them all I never stole from the silver plate, my had more gall One preacher said, "Sing out loud and clear, the only life you've got And the one said, "Be good on earth You've another life at the of God"
And Gulf winds bring me flying fish, that shine in the crescent Show me the horizon where the will break anew And cool me on this lonely pier, where the heron are flying low Echo the songs my fathers in the towns of Mexico
My father turned down many a job just to us something real It's hard to be a scientist in the States when you've got And kept the budget book, and she kept the garden too fish from the man on Thursdays, fed all of us and strangers too
But time will pass and so, alas, will most of what we Though tonight my memory's eye is clear as the story's told And I'll play ball with the underdog and sit with the child wrong Be still when the earth is silent and sing when my strength is
So Gulf winds bring me flying fish, that shine in the moon Show me the horizon where the dawn break anew And cool me here on lonely pier, where the heron are flying low Echo the songs my knew in the towns of Mexico
Now Father's to India, sometime in the fall They tried to stay together but you just do it all I'll think about him if he goes, there's a little gray in his Though not much he's Mexican, they don't age, they just prepare
And if he goes to India, I'll him most of all He'll see me in the face, hear me in the beggar's call And Mama will stay home, I guess, and if she did wrong And I'll say a prayer for both of them and sing them both my
And Gulf winds bring me fish, that shine in the crescent moon Show me the where the dawn will break anew And me here on this lonely pier, where the heron are flying low Echo the songs my father in the towns of Mexico