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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.)