Lyr Add: Strong Winds for Autumn (Bob McNeill)

Subject: Lyr Add: STRONG WINDS FOR AUTUMN (Bob McNeill)
From: Stewie
Date: 14 May 07 - 02:39 AM

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STRONG WINDS FOR AUTUMN
(Bob McNeill)

Strong winds for Autumn
Better bring those engines up
No sail can carry my love
No words will guide her
The calling voice is silent

And I watched them make turns for ten knots
I went each day to the end of the dock
Till the day my Annie sailed
On the last boat down the weeping loch

When the sickness came
I suffered with my friends
One day I thought the world would end
In the dark I called her name
The others there heard nothing

And I watched them make turns for ten knots
I felt her wake with my feet in the surf
Till even that was calm
And the last boat had gone

Chorus:
Sail away my Annan love
No breeze can catch you now
It's all clear
There's only memories here
This year will know no winter

[Instrumental break]

And I watched them make turns for ten knots
The cries of the gulls filled the air as I watched
The day my Annie sailed
On the last boat down the weeping loch

Chorus (X2)

Strong winds for Autumn
Better bring those engines up

Source:   Bob McNeill 'Turn the Diesels' [No label]

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Strong winds for autumn
From: Stewie
Date: 14 May 07 - 06:26 PM

Bob McNeill's note for this song is:

In small coastal communities there was sometimes a delicate balance between the number of people in the community and the amount of work needed to feed them. If many people died from illness at one time, often this left too few people to get enough food in to enable the community to survive the winter. In the song, a village is evacuated for this reason. The story is told from the perspective of a man who died from the sickness.

--Stewie.