Four Strong Winds (unfinished transcription)

Ian Tyson

  The Basement Tapes - may/october 1967  

Four strong winds that blow lonely
Seven seas that run high
All these things that won't change come what may
But our good times all are gone
And i'm bound for moving on
I'll look for you if you ever come this way.

Think i'll go out to Alberta
Weather's good there in the fall
Got some friends that I can go working for
If i make you change your mind
If i ask you one more time
But we've been through that a hundred times or more.

Four strong winds that blow lonely
Seven seas that run high
All these things that won't change come what may
But our good times all are gone
And i'm bound for moving on
I'll look for you if you ever come this way.

(*) [inaudible verse] We're on our [way]
Down the lonely ???
And no [????] lookin' a way to make our own
But now then it would be springtime
And not much for you to do
So i'll see you when i pass this way again.

Four strong winds that blow lonely
Seven seas that run high
All these things that won't change come what may
But our good times all are gone
And i'm bound for moving on
I'll look for you if you ever pass this way.   

(*)____Tyson's version :
If I get there before the snow flies
And if things are goin' good
You could meet me if I sent you down the fare
But by then it would be winter
There ain't too much for you to do
And those winds sure can blow cold way out there