WHEN THE WIND WAS GREEN


recorded by -
Chris Connor 1956
Eydie Gorme 1958
Frank Sinatra 1965


as recorded by Eydie Gorme
with Orchestra conducted by Don Costa

When the wind was green at the start of the spring,
When the wind was green like a living thing,
It was on my lips and its kiss was fair;
You were there!

When the wind was red like a summer wine,
When the wind was red like your lips on mine,
It caressed my face and it tossed my hair;
You were there!

Then came the fall and all of love
Came tumbling, stumbling down,
Like leaves that lost to frost and found
They were flying, crying,
In a brown wind dying!

But the winter's come and we both should know
That the wind is white like the swirling snow,
And we'll never ever see all the wonderful things to be seen
When the wind, when the wind is green!




(Transcribed by Peter Akers - May 2020)