It's only the high winds blow that I wish my hair was long through the autumn leaves singin' an ancient song Or falling in love in the streets at night at the edge of a square It's only that I'm here tonight thinkin' I was
There's high winds on the tonight, my soul departs from me Striding like Thalia's Ghost south on the sea And into midnight's tapestry she fades, ragged and Searching down her ancestry in the costume of a Persian
So Gulf winds bring me flying fish, that in the crescent moon Show me the horizon where the dawn will break And cool me here on this lonely pier, where the are flying low Echo the my father knew in the towns of Mexico
When I was young my were wise, my father was good to me Instead of having a flock of he had two other girls and me And if used our Spanish names, here's the way they'd run Thalia, Margarita and Juanita, I'm the one
The screen door kept the Demons in as we moved from to town It's hard to be a princess in the States when your is brown And Mama smoothed my worried brow, as I leaned on the door "Why do you carry the weight", she "Of the world and more"
Gulf winds bring me 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 the songs my fathers knew in the towns of Mexico
My grandfathers were and it came on down the line My preached in his parents' church When he was ten years and And dressed in parishioners' clothes and didn't believe in Hell Her daddy fought the DAR, if lived, I'd have known him well
said, "Go find a Sunday School", we must have tried them all I stole from the silver plate, my sisters had more gall One preacher said, "Sing out loud and clear, it's the life you've got And the one said, "Be good on earth You've another life at the of God"
And Gulf winds me flying fish, that shine in the crescent moon Show me the horizon where the dawn will break And cool me here on this pier, where the heron are flying low Echo the my fathers knew in the towns of Mexico
My turned down many a job just to give us something real It's to be a scientist in the States when you've got ideals And kept the budget book, and she kept the garden too Bought fish from the man on Thursdays, fed all of us and too
But time will and so, alas, will most of what we know Though tonight my memory's eye is clear as the story's being And I'll play ball with the and sit with the child who's wrong Be still when the earth is and sing when my strength is gone
So Gulf winds bring me flying fish, that in the crescent moon Show me the where the dawn will break anew And cool me here on lonely pier, where the heron are flying low Echo the songs my father in the towns of Mexico
Now Father's going to India, sometime in the They tried to together but you just can't do it all I'll about him if he goes, there's a little gray in his hair Though not much 'cause he's Mexican, they don't age, just prepare
And if he goes to India, miss him most of all He'll see me in the mudlarks' face, hear me in the beggar's And Mama will stay home, I guess, and if she did wrong And say a prayer for both of them and sing them both my song
And Gulf winds bring me fish, that shine in the crescent moon Show me the horizon the dawn will break anew And cool me here on this lonely pier, the heron are flying low Echo the my father knew in the towns of Mexico