The Brothers Four - Four Strong Winds

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

Then I'm bound for moving on

I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way.

I think I'll go out to Alberta

The weather's good there in the fall

I got some friends that I could go to working for

Still I wish you'd change your mind

If I ask you one more time

But we've been through that a hundred times or more.

If I get there before the snow flies

And if things are looking good

You can meet me if I send you down the fare

But by then it would be winter

Not too much for you to do

And those winds sure can blow cold way out there.

      Four Strong Winds is a song written in 1962 by Ian Tyson and recorded by Canadian folk duo Ian and Sylvia on their 1963 album Four Strong Winds. The song was the first one that Tyson wrote. He has stated that he wrote the song in the New York apartment of his manager at the time Albert Grossman. Tyson said that he was inspired to write it after hearing Bob Dylan sing.