For Cale and Riley -- Summer 2012

      Yesterday's Wind

Riley Lincoln

West Palm Beach, FL

September 2012

Yesterday's wind, yesterday's wind

  It can never be used again

You can't sail your boat

  On yesterday's wind

You can only sail on the winds of today

  Yesterday's wind pushed us smooth and fast

Today's winds are slow

  And make us think of the past

Yesterday's wind, yesterday's wind

  You can't sail on yesterday's wind

Today's wind will take you far away

  Yesterday's winds were another day

Yesterday's winds were for fun and play

  But yesterday's winds have gone away

And today's winds are not here to stay

  Tomorrow's winds will blow another way

Yesterday's winds, yesterday's winds

  Have all gone away

Sometimes it will be a lonesome wind

  And the sailboat will go adrift

You will wish you had yesterday's wind

  But you can't sail on yesterday's wind

Only the wind you have here today

  Will take you on your way

Blow, wind, blow -- blow, wind, blow

  Take me far away to another day

I don't need any of that lonesome wind

  Don't need that lonesome wind to blow

Today's wind will soon be yesterday's wind

  And tomorrow's wind will blow

One day it will be a cold wind

  The cold north wind will blow

You would think it's going to snow

Yesterday's wind, yesterday's wind

  Oh how I wish I could sail on yesterday's wind

Maybe tomorrow the Caribbean wind will blow

  Then we won't think of yesterday's wind no more

Yesterday's wind, yesterday's wind

  When you see the sand and plam trees

You will say 'This sailing is for me'

  But remember you can't sail on yesterday's wind

Yesterday's wind, yesterday's wind

                   HAPPY SAILING!