Wicked Wind of the Hurricane v.2

 

Dateline Galveston: Tropical Storm Alicia, the first named weather system
of the 1983 Atlantic hurricane season, formed Monday in the north-central
Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana coast. Highest sustained winds of
forty five miles per hour have been recorded, as the storm drifts to the
west at six miles per hour. Rapid strengthening is expected and
forecasters predict that warnings could be required for
portions of the upper Texas coast today.

 

There’s a hurricane blowing in the Gulf tonight, getting bigger and bigger and bigger

People running ‘round town trying to batten things down, buying batteries and boarding up windows

And kicking up such a fuss ‘cause she’s blowing straight at us

 

As if she hated us, she turned that wicked eye on us

Come to blow, blow, blow, blow, blow, blow, blow us away

Come to blow our love away (Wicked wind of the hurricane)

Blow, blow, blow, blow, blow our love away (Wicked wind, wicked wind of the hurricane)

Blow, blow, blow, blow, blow our love away (Wicked wind of the hurricane)

 

There’s a hurricane blowing in the Gulf tonight, now the tide is rising, rising

There’s a whip in the wind and a sting in the rain and the TV crews are arriving

They want to take pictures of us ‘cause she’s blowing straight at us

 

As if she hated us, she turned that wicked eye on us

Come to blow, blow, blow, blow, blow, blow, blow us away

Come to blow our love away (Wicked wind of the hurricane)

Blow, blow, blow, blow, blow our love away (Wicked wind, wicked wind of the hurricane)

Blow, blow, blow, blow, blow our love away (Wicked wind of the hurricane)

 

Come to blow all night (Come to blow all night)

What a frightful night (What a frightful night)

Me and the kids (Me and the kids)

Me the cats and the kids

But where are you tonight, this fateful night

 

There’s a hurricane blowing over land today, now her winds are dying, dying

But she knocked down trees and she splintered poles and she sent some rooftops flying

She devastated us, she’s what separated us

 

As if she hated us, she turned that wicked eye on us

Come to blow, blow, blow, blow, blow our love away

Come to blow our love away (Wicked wind of the hurricane)

Blow, blow, blow, blow, blow our love away (Wicked wind, wicked wind of the hurricane)

Blow, blow, blow, blow, blow our love away (Wicked wind of the hurricane)

 

Come to blow all night (Come to blow all night)

What a frightful night (What a frightful night)

Me and the kids (Me and the kids)

Me the cats and the kids

But where’d you go last night, that fateful night

 

© 1989. Billy Marabella.

 

NOTES ON THIS SONG
I just changed the intro a little bit and dropped a verse to shorten the song’s length, but the essence of the song has not changed from version 1. I recorded the song for the second time because I have such confidence in the song’s raison d’etre, and I thought the recording of version 1 was not quite sophisticated enough. Mardi Wareham contributes background vocals.