Four Strong Winds
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Category:Calm
Category:Ballad
Link:Performance Example
Notes:Originally written by Ian Tyson, this gentle ballad reflects on love, distance, and the quiet resignation of parting ways, set against the backdrop of the Canadian landscape.

 

D F#m E7 (last line of verse)

 

Four strong Awinds that blow Dlonely,

seven E7seas that run Ahigh

All those things that don't Dchange come what E7may

Now our Agood times are all Bmgone,

and I'm E7bound for moving Aon

I'll look Dfor you if I'm F#mever back this E7way.

 

Guess I'll Ago out to AlDberta,

weather's E7good there in the Afall

Got some friends that I can Dgo to working E7for

Still I Awish you'd change your Bmmind,

if I E7asked you one more Atime

But we've Dbeen through that a F#mhundred times or E7more

 

Four strong Awinds that blow Dlonely, seven E7seas that run Ahigh

All those things that don't Dchange come what E7may

Now our Agood times are all Bmgone, and I'm E7bound for moving Aon

I'll look Dfor you if I'm F#mever back this E7way.

 

If I Aget there before the Dsnowflies, and if E7things are going Agood

You could meet me if I Dsent you down the E7fare

But by Athen it would be Bmwinter, nothing E7much for you to Ado

And the Dwind sure blows F#mcold way out E7there

 

Four strong Awinds that blow Dlonely, seven E7seas that run Ahigh

All those things that don't Dchange come what E7may

Now our Agood times are all Bmgone, and I'm E7bound for moving Aon

I'll look Dfor you if I'm F#mever back this E7way.

 

Yes our Agood times are all Bmgone, and I'm E7bound for moving Aon

I'll look Dfor you if I'm F#mever back this Away.

 

Chords Used

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