There's a Wind

There's a wind a-comin' Can you hear it humming There's a wind a-comin' Can you hear it sighing There's a wind a-rising Can you hear it blowing Oh the wind blows keenly into the bay A nervous, restless breeze With the scent of storm in its mouth And there is shifting and unrest in the air There's a wind a-blowing Can you hear it crying Oh the wind came up to pound the Bay Oh the wind And ripped through the seaweeds and shrubs along the beach Oh the wind And the wind cut through the shacks of sticks And no boat dared go out on the water Oh the wind, oh the wind, oh the wind There's a wind a-rising. Can you hear it crying It screams over the Bay and churns up the whitecaps The palm trees sway like terrified beasts A stifling dust stirs up from the soil And hangs in a choking haze over the sea There's a wind, there's a wind The wind clears out the sky And drives away the clouds And piles the sand like snowdrifts all around Oh the wind, wind, wind, wind, wind It blows all night While the young couple walks to the mountains And then it blows away And then it goes away There's a wind goin' Can you hear it dying