What Colour Is the Wind?

What Colour Is the Wind?

Lyrics and Vocals: British country and folk musician and singer-songwriter, Charlie Alexander Landsborough.

The song, hereunder, tells the touching story of a blind child trying to understand the world through simple but powerful questions.
Released in the mid-1990s, it became one of Landsborough’s best-known songs and helped make him especially popular in Ireland.
The song is loved for its emotional lyrics, soft melody, and the message of innocence, love, and wonder.

What Colour Is the Wind?

What Colour Is the Wind?

What colour is the wind, Daddy,
Is it yellow, red or blue,
When he’s playing with my hair, Dad,
Does he do the same to you.
When he’s dying does his colour fade,
Is a gentle breeze a lighter shade,
Just like his friend the sea,
The wind feels blue to me.
When the blackbird starts to sing, Daddy,
Do the flowers hear him, too,
When he’s pouring out his heart, Dad,
Tell me, what do roses do.
Do they cast their scent upon the air,
And is fragrance just a rose in prayer,
Giving thanks to God above,
For the blackbird’s song of love.

Blow, wind, blow, wild and free.
My Daddy says, you’re a lot like me.
I know each colour, its shape and size.
I’ve seen them all, with my Daddy’s eyes.

I know that grass is green, Dad,
I’ve touched it with my toes.
And snow is purest white, Dad,
I’ve felt it with my nose.
But my favorite colour has to be,
The colour of your love for me,
And Daddy, I’ve been told,
That love is always gold.

Blow, wind, blow, wild and free.
My Daddy says, you’re a lot like me.
My Daddy says, you’re a lot like me.

What colour is the wind?

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