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Thread #25632   Message #1787784
Posted By: Little Hawk
19-Jul-06 - 08:44 PM
Thread Name: more verses to 'four strong winds'
Subject: RE: more verses to 'four strong winds'
Ian Tyson (in 1963):

If Bob Dylan's writing hits
Then why can't I do it too?
After all, he's just a scruffy little kid!
He's not tall and strong like me
He can't even tie his shoes
He can't ride the buckin' broncos like I did

Four strong chords that ring lonely
Seven changes that go round
Till you end up at the start, and start again
That Bob Dylan rots my socks
He eats onion buns and lox
Now get ready...here the chorus comes again...

Four strong chords that... etc.

*(Tyson reputedly wrote FSW sometime between '61 and '63, having taken note of Dylan's great success with self-penned songs, and saying something like: "If that little squirt can write a hit song, so can I." FSW was Ian's first orginal compositon, at least the first that was recorded, and it remains his most successful song.)