more verses to 'four strong winds'

Subject: more verses to 'four strong winds'
From:
Date: 21 Sep 00 - 01:48 AM

there are only two verses listed and when I played this song in the late 60's there several more. Anyone help? I just can't remember them. Thanks a lot. Also need chord progressions on this one.

Subject: RE: more verses to 'four strong winds'
From: Stewie
Date: 21 Sep 00 - 02:19 AM

It seems there are only three:

Four Strong Winds

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: more verses to 'four strong winds'
From: Stewie
Date: 21 Sep 00 - 02:31 AM

The chords can be found in Cowpie:

Click

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: more verses to 'four strong winds'
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Sep 00 - 05:47 AM

"Four Strong Winds" has two verses,
And a chorus, that is all;
But it's quite enough to make a pretty song
But if you want something longer,
Try a ballad, like "Tam Lin"
But to my mind,
Ian Tyson can't go wrong.

-anonymous former Wisconsinite living in Sacramento-

Subject: RE: more verses to 'four strong winds'
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Sep 00 - 05:57 AM

And if that ain't satisfact'ry
Then make some verses up
Sing about your long-lost kitty and your pup
Sing about your wicked mother
And mention Daddy too,
Don't forget to give me credit, if you do

-by the same guy-

Subject: RE: more verses to 'four strong winds'
From: Gary T
Date: 21 Sep 00 - 04:30 PM

The part that starts "Four strong winds..." can be thought of as a chorus: it is typically sung first and last, and sometimes in between the other two verses.

I would suggest a "better" chord arrangement than the one on Cowpie (I got it from a book years ago, and it sounds better to me):

  G  Am  D  G  
  G  Am  D  D7 
  G  Am  D  G  
  Am C   D  -  
  

Subject: RE: more verses to 'four strong winds'
From: raredance
Date: 21 Sep 00 - 07:08 PM

Just cause you were once a cheesehead doesn't grant you copyright over all mention of mommy, daddy, kitty and puppy.

Think I'll go out to the outhouse
Reading's good there in the stall....

Subject: RE: more verses to 'four strong winds'
From: Jolly
Date: 21 Sep 00 - 10:16 PM

Don't want to think about what happens
If you fall

Kim

Subject: DT Corr: Four Strong Winds (Ian Tyson)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Sep 02 - 01:58 AM

OK, George Seto dropped a tantalizing hint in another thread, and I'm not going to let him get away with it:

Another similar case is Four Strong Winds, where Bobby Bare wrote a completely different song from hearing Ian Tyson's version on the radio while in his car.

OK, George, so what are the lyrics to the Bobby Bare song?
-Joe Offer-

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Here are the words from the Digital Tradition. I listened to the studio recording and found a few words that were different - I put my corrections in italics. Any other corrections?

FOUR STRONG WINDS
(Ian Tyson)

Four strong winds that blow lonely, seven seas that run high,
All those 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.

Guess Think I'll go down out to Alberta, weather's good there in the fall.
Got some friends that I can go to workin' 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.

CHORUS

If I get there before the snow flies, and if things are looking going good.
You could meet me if I sent you down the fare,
But by then it would be winter, not enough there ain't too much for you to do.
And those winds sure do can blow cold way up out there.
CHORUS

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Copyright Ian Tyson

Recorded by Ian and Sylvia
@Canada @love
filename[ FOURSTRN
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Studio recording by Ian & Sylvia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjfTDPhMdTk

1986 live performance by Ian & Sylvia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3m7ckGhnsc

Neil Young: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP9UjLeLN5A

Ian Tyson Tells The Story Behind 'Four Strong Winds' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJdvv7jB0Tc

Subject: RE: more verses to 'four strong winds'
From: Joan from Wigan
Date: 18 Sep 02 - 05:04 AM

The Bobby Bare Songbook gives the well-known Ian Tyson lyrics. I've never heard different lyrics (excepting the odd changed word or two), and have often wished the song was longer. If anyone has written extra verses, I too would be interested in knowing them.

Joan

Subject: RE: more verses to 'four strong winds'
From: Janice in NJ
Date: 18 Sep 02 - 06:53 AM

If you go to Alberta,
But say that I can't go,
'Cause I'm just some silly girl you like to screw,
We'll listen real good, Buster,
There are some things that you should know,
Like what me and my sisters think of you!

© Janice Dugan 2002

Subject: RE: more verses to 'four strong winds'
From:
Date: 18 Sep 02 - 11:16 AM

I remember back in the late sixties or early 70s, there was an interview with Bobby Bare. He had been travelling between gigs, and heard part of the song Four Strong Winds. He liked it very much, but was unable to locate the station he heard it on, and hadn't heard the name of the singer. He did remember the Four Strong Winds part of it.

So he proceeded to write and sing a song with the same title.

I'll have to do more research.

Subject: RE: more verses to 'four strong winds'
From: Midchuck
Date: 18 Sep 02 - 11:36 AM

Any person who thinks he can improve on Ian Tyson's songwriting should have his poetic license revoked on the spot. And perhaps be required to join Ian in some rodeo cutting horse competitions, playing the part of the beef.

Peter.

Subject: RE: more verses to 'four strong winds'
From: Bo Vandenberg
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 03:31 AM

Apologies to all (no beef here only ham :) )

I think I'll go and surf the Mudcat
Somethings good their now and then
I'll look for you if your ever out that way
Cause sometimes, like 3 am
Its a place to meet my friends
The threads they just keep spinning, come what may!


Sigurd

Subject: RE: more verses to 'four strong winds'
From: Mooh
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 06:11 AM

We used to do a parody called "Strong Foreskins" a la Neil Young. Mooh.

Subject: RE: more verses to 'four strong winds'
From: The Pooka
Date: 21 Sep 02 - 03:15 PM

Mooh - Har har har! Could you post that parody??

Subject: RE: more verses to 'four strong winds'
From: Mooh
Date: 22 Sep 02 - 04:06 PM

Pooka, if I can find the guy who sung it, he'll remember the words! Sorry I didn't respond earlier, was fishing for trout. Mooh.

Subject: RE: more verses to 'four strong winds'
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Jul 04 - 01:29 PM

RE: "Four Strong Winds" -- Quelle: USA? Canada?

Ian Tyson is Canadian. Alberta is in Canada.

The song is Canadian of course.

Subject: RE: more verses to 'four strong winds'
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 10 Jul 04 - 06:00 AM

Thank you, Guest! Will be changed.

Subject: RE: more verses to 'four strong winds'
From: paddymac
Date: 10 Jul 04 - 09:17 AM

This is one of my favorite songs from that era. Only recently did I learn the story behind it. The shortened version is that it was their unique way of dealing with the pain of divorce. Beautifully done, methinks.

Subject: RE: words to "four strong winds"
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 10:34 AM

Subject: RE: more verses to 'four strong winds'
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 02:26 PM

If I get there before the SHAMBLES,
And things are looking good.
You can greet me on a nonsensical thread.
But by then it might be bedtime,
Not too many to talk to,
So you might as well just go and rest your head.

Subject: RE: more verses to 'four strong winds'
From: Gene
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 08:23 PM

The story I heard Bare tell was about the song
500 miles by Glen Cambell

Unable to come up with a recording of it..he wrote new
lyrics to the tune and recorded his version..

Perhaps that's the one mentioned above?

Subject: RE: more verses to 'four strong winds'
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Jul 06 - 08:44 PM

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.)

Subject: RE: more verses to 'four strong winds'
From: GUEST,Gordon
Date: 16 Mar 07 - 10:18 PM

Well, Ian is not tall, I have stood beside him and I know. I don't know when he started riding horses or ranching, but he is still at it today, I guess. And he Does know who Casey Tibbs is/was. I love the song he wrote about "The RainBow Rider". I cannot think of him writing those stupid 'Dylan Lyrics".they are a tad bigoted and do not show Ian's talent. Nevertheless, the myth could be fact and myths do Become facts.
Mr. Tyson also wrote many hits that were made so as sung other artists,
including 'Navaho Rug' as done by Jerry Jeff Walker and 'Someday Soon' as sung by Judy Collins.
I don't think his trouble with relationships ended with his divorce from Silvia Fricker. For a glimse into his longing for his love(s), see both
'Navaho Rug and 'Irving Berlin (is 100 years old today)'. Mind you, he did take to Alberta and worked on the coasts of 2 of Canadas oceans and now is part of History. They have even hummed him in Jersey I hear. - G.

Subject: RE: more verses to 'four strong winds'
From: Jeremiah McCaw
Date: 17 Mar 07 - 07:45 AM

"I don't know when he started riding horses or ranching . . ."

As I recall the stories, he was a competitive rodeo rider 'til back injuries forced him to give it up. It was after that he turned to music.

Ain't no wannabe - the man's an authentic cowboy.