Name: Wild Wind Blows
Duration: P00H03M32S
Description: The wild fires that ravaged Canada last year had a real impact on our eco-activist songwriter. He was surprised to learn that those fires didn't light a fire under our governments to get more aggressive about our climate crisis. This fictional tale outlines one family's efforts to escape the blaze.

Wild Wind Blows

from Wrinkles and Scars by JAMES GORDON

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The wild fires that ravaged Canada last year had a real impact on our eco-activist songwriter. He was surprised to learn that those fires didn't light a fire under our governments to get more aggressive about our climate crisis. This fictional tale outlines one family's efforts to escape the blaze.

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The wild wind blows through the valley
The fire grows by the day
It’s time to go, come on Sally
That fatal glow, is coming our way

Seven generations now
On this family farm, somehow
We made it through floods and drought
We made it through the dust bowl and
We managed to bounce back again
When the bankers tried to close us out

Feel that heat it’s closing in
Close enough to scorch your skin
Sal it’s time to set the horses free
You’d think that all that thick black smoke
Would wake up all the anti-woke
But they stay too blind to see

The earth is black the sky is red
But most of us still keep our heads
In the smoldering sand
When the haze blocks out the sun
Sal, it’s time for us to run
But where can we go in this troubled land

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from Wrinkles and Scars, released March 2, 2024

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JAMES GORDON Guelph, Ontario

James Gordon is a Canadian songwriter/playwright/musician/producer/author and community activist. Co-founder of the legendary Canadian folk trio Tamarack, He’s released 40 albums in 40 years!
His newest release on Borealis Records- "the Heritage Hall Sessions" has been very well received world-wide. James Moonlights as a CIty Councillor in his hometown of Guelph, Ontario. www.jamesgordon.ca ... more

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