Lyr Req: The Wind Cries Mary (Jimi Hendrix)

Subject: RE: Wind/Sky crying 'Mary'?
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 02:22 AM

G'day Shambles et al,

I can't lay my hand on any confirmation of this, but I seem to remember hearing that the practice of giving names to major storm systems started in Australia - with a rather thorny government meteorologist who named them after politicians.

When he was forced (by the politicians) to stop naming them after politicians he had to give them female names ... which could never be mistaken for politicians because the idea of a female politician was ludicrous!

Regards,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: Wind/Sky crying 'Mary'?
From: catspaw49
Date: 21 Oct 00 - 05:47 PM

Actually Mary, that's where the business came came from added to the fact I'm a sailor. There is a light, gossamer sound to Hammered Dulcimers and the whole thing tied together. I started using it several years before I ever saw Mudcat.

On the subject of Catspaw's winds......well, nuff said!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Wind/Sky crying 'Mary'?
From: M. Ted (inactive)
Date: 20 Oct 00 - 06:54 PM

The wind crying some one's name, be it Mary or not, is a literary device, much used in Victorian age poetry, called "Pathetic Fallacy", in which some element in the real world echoes or reacts to the emotions of the subject. When a cold wind blows on lonely person walks down a deserted street, when rain falls at a funeral, when something good happens and the sun pops out, or when the wind cries out the name of someone who has gone, your "pathetic fallacy" dollars are hard at work--

Subject: RE: Wind/Sky crying 'Mary'?
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 20 Oct 00 - 05:33 PM

ooooh...I just thought about what that sounds like! Cat's Paw Wind!

Subject: RE: Wind/Sky crying 'Mary'?
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 20 Oct 00 - 05:31 PM

I found a Cat's Paw wind at this link! (http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/almanac/arc_1998/98may01.htm) Says it's a gentle wind.

There are two references to Mary in the first paragraph. Actually, there are lots of names for various winds all over the world.

Subject: RE: Wind/Sky crying 'Mary'?
From: mousethief
Date: 20 Oct 00 - 03:05 PM

They name every other one after ladies and the ones left over after gentlemen.

Alex
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Subject: RE: Wind/Sky crying 'Mary'?
From: Haruo
Date: 20 Oct 00 - 02:52 PM

Did they actually stop naming hurricanes as females, or did they just cut back to 50% of them?

Liland

Subject: RE: Wind/Sky crying 'Mary'?
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 20 Oct 00 - 02:13 PM

No, I think he just did too much acid. I still love the mood of the song and I have to agree with LEJ about the Guitar part. Jimi sure did some pretty stuff.

Subject: RE: Wind/Sky crying 'Mary'?
From: mousethief
Date: 20 Oct 00 - 02:08 PM

He was trying to sound like Dylan.

Alex
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Subject: RE: Wind/Sky crying 'Mary'?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 20 Oct 00 - 02:02 PM

Hendrix had one of the worst verses he ever wrote in The Wind Cries Mary when he said "The traffic lights they turn on blue tomorrow/And rain in emptiness down on my head/The tiny island sags downstream/Cause the life it lived is... is dead" He did redeem this tripe with an amazing guitar break,as usual.

Subject: RE: Wind/Sky crying 'Mary'?
From: The Shambles
Date: 20 Oct 00 - 01:27 PM

"They call the wind Maria", is another one.

Maybe it has something to with the practice (now stopped), of naming hurricanes as female?

Subject: Wind/Sky crying 'Mary'?
From: mousethief
Date: 20 Oct 00 - 01:24 PM

There seem to be a lot of songs with the line, "the sky cries Mary" or "the wind cries Mary."

Does anybody know the source of this? Does this come from a legend or story of some sort? Does anybody know which song or poem first used this line?

This question has been bubbling in my mind for some time. Sure would like to hear people's thoughts and/or research on this one.

Thanks,
Alex
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