Lyr Req: Great High Wind (That Blew the Low Post..

Subject: Lyr Req: It's a great high wind
From:
Date: 10 Nov 02 - 01:12 AM

Can anyone supply he words to the song "It's a Great high wind that blew the low post down".

Thanks   Mike Jones

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: It's a great high wind
From:
Date: 10 Nov 02 - 11:04 AM

It looks like the Dave Brothers do it. Will see what I can do. I'll e-mail Dave Chapman today.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: It's a great high wind
From: mg
Date: 10 Nov 02 - 11:57 PM

I thought it was blew the goal post down..from the Beers family? I could have heard it wrong. mg

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: It's a great high wind
From: GUEST,Arkie
Date: 11 Nov 02 - 12:50 AM

I heard the Beers do it years ago as "low post" and finally located my recording of it. Now I have to find a reel to reel recorder.

Subject: Lyr Add: THE GREAT HIGH WIND (THAT BLEW THE LOW...
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 11 Nov 02 - 04:38 AM

I learned THE GREAT HIGH WIND (THAT BLEW THE LOW POST DOWN) from a Booger Hole Revival album from about 1980. I usually introduce the song with something like "Imagine a fence in a field and the fence is made from posts of all different sizes and heights. Well, if it would take a pretty strong wind to blow the highest of all those posts down it would take the mother of all winds to blow the low post down."

(Chorus)
(Am)Well it blew in the valleys and it blew in the hills
(G) Blew till the moon and the stars stood still
(Am) Blew down to Hell till the devil caught a chill
(Am) It's the great high wind that blew the (G)low post(Am) down

(Am)Well it blew so hard it knocked the whiskers from the rye
(G)Blew so hard it knocked the buttons from the sky
(Am)When God looked down he said "Well-oh-well-oh-wye"
(Am) It's the great high wind that blew the (G)low post (Am) down

(Repeat chorus)

Well it blew so hard it knocked the feathers from the crows
Blew so hard it knocked the barley from the rows
When it blew across my feet I had to stop and count my toes
It's the great high wind that blew the low post down

(Repeat chorus)

Ah, the sheep in the field took shelter in the trees
But the trees blew down before the mighty breeze
My poor old cow, it went flying 'cross the sea
It's the great high wind that blew the low post down

(Repeat chorus)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: It's a great high wind
From: mg
Date: 11 Nov 02 - 11:18 AM

I always pictured it on a football field blowing the goal post down. Oh well...mg

Subject: DTADD: Great High Wind That Blew the Low Post Down
From: Art Thieme
Date: 11 Nov 02 - 06:01 PM

This song was brought to the American folk revival by Bob (Fiddler) and Evelyn Beers and also Bob's sister, Janet, with her husband, Bill Boyer. -- The Boyer family ran a great music and folklore center plus a concert series in St. Louis. The Beers Family started the great Fox Hollow Folk Festival in New York State. (That's not to be confused with today's Fox Valley Folk Festival in Geneva, Illinois.) I was all set to write out these words to this song as they were sung by Janet Boyer with her daughter Susan Boyer Haley at the GREAT RIVER FOLK FESTIVAL in Lacrosse, Wisconsin -- 1978. You beat me to it.
BUT----now I see that these words are different than yours.

They all sang this version that came from Bob and Janet's Irish grandfather, George Sullivan, of North Freedom, Wisconsin.

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(Chorus)
Oh, it blew on the valley and it blew on the hill,
Blew 'til the sun and the moon stood still,
It blew down to hell 'til the devil got a chill,
It's the great high wind that blew the low post down.

Blew so hard it knocked the whiskers off the rye,
Blew so high it blew the buttons from the sky,
Th Lord looked down and hollered, "Well, well, why."
It's the great high wind that blew the low post down.

(Chorus)

Well, it blew away the eyes from a row of sweet potaters,
And it wrinkled up the skin on a flock of alligators,
And it blew away the kiss from a pair of osculators,
It's the great high wind that blew the low post down.

(Chorus)

Well, it stirred up the fire and it stirred up the soup,
Stirred up the hens in the little chicken coop,
And it lifted up the feathers and the rooster gave a "WHOOP",
It's the great high wind that blew the low post down.

(Chorus)

Well, the steeple rang out 'til it saved every pigeon,
It played out a tune on the bellows of the organ,
And the preacher cried out until the devil got religion,
It's a great high wind that blew the low post down.

(Art Thieme)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: It's a great high wind
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 11 Nov 02 - 11:10 PM

Art - Thanks for the additional verses. I'll definitely add the chicken verse to my rendition. Er... what's an osculator?

Bruce

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: It's a great high wind
From: emjay
Date: 16 May 04 - 05:07 PM

How funny! I just found this thread which ended with a question, "What is an osculator?" I'm sure you've long since had the answer but in case you didn't, osculating is kissing, the pair of osculators were kissing.
I was happy to find the words, though I have it on an old record or worse, on a reel to reel tape, finding it this way was a LOT easier.