Story Behind The Song

The lyrics are the story.

Song Description

The poorest of our society are the ones that die for our country....many times for no good reason.

Lyrics

The Wind is Blowing from the West words & music by R. Michelson


It was a cold winter day, the sky was so blue
My brother and my mother, the only family that I knew
The wind was blowing cold from the West,
That's the thing I remember best.
With two boys to raise my mother worked so long
My brother and I were left all alone
The wind was blowing from the West,
That's the thing I remember best.
My lord why did you leave me so alone
My lord I'm so far from my home

She took to drinkin and bringing men home
They would use her, beat her, and leave her alone
The wind was blowing from the West,
That's the thing I remember best.
Then one morning my mother was gone
Oh my lord why'd you take my mother home?
The wind was blowing from the West,
That's the thing I remember best.
Oh my lord why did you leave me so alone
Oh my lord I'm so far from my home

I was too young to work so I said I was seventeen
When you ain't got no money you ain't got no time for no dreams
That wind was still blowing from the West,
That's the thing I remember best.
Then one day this man came in the store
Said you boys want a future you got to fight in the war
The wind was blowing from the West,
That's the thing I remember best.
Oh my lord why did you leave me so alone
Oh my lord I'm so far from my home

So to fight we did go and my brother died first
The desert drank his blood but it didn't feed no thirst
That wind was still blowing from the West,
That's the thing I remember best.
Then I took a bullet and I fell to my grave
No promise , no future, nothing to save
The wind was still blowing from the West,
That's the thing I remember best.
Oh my country why did you leave me so alone
Now my lord is calling me to my home
And that wind is still blowing from the West...