Sunday, September 10, 2023

Four Strong Winds

I didn't sing this one in highschool with Chris - I didn't know it then. I wish I had. It would have been very typical of what I gravitated toward. The background stories of the song are interesting if you like that sort of thing.



4 comments:

james said...
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james said...

I haven't heard that in many years. At the time I didn't quite see how the allusions in the refrain worked, though I thought the refrain was nicely evocative. I was used to songs not always making a lot of sense when looked at closely...

Assistant Village Idiot said...

He wrote it in a hour after listening to "Bobby" Dylan sing "Blowin' in the Wind." Does that make it clearer?

james said...

I meant at the time. The 4-winds and the 7-seas I recognized, but didn't get what they were supposed to be doing.