Joan Baez & Mimi Fariña - Catch the Wind [HD]

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Joan Baez and Mimi Fariña sing the Donovan Leitch song 'Catch the Wind'. This song is on the two 1998 Vanguard compilation albums 'Generations of Folk (Volume 3, Classic Harmonies)' and 'Folk Duets'. The lyrics are below with notes about the song.

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Catch the Wind (Singers: Joan Baez & Mimi Fariña)

In the chilly hours and minutes
Of uncertainty
I want to be
In the warm hold of your love and mine
To feel you all around me
And to take your hand
Along the sand
Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind

When sundown pales the sky
I want to hide a while
Behind your smile
And everywhere I'd look, your eyes I'd find
Standing in your heart
Is where I want to be
I long to be
Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind

Dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee
Dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee
Dee dee dee dee

When the rain has hung the leaves with tears
I want you near
To still my fears
To help me to leave all my blues behind
For me to love you now
T'would be the sweetest thing
T'would make me sing
Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind

Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind

Songwriter: Donovan Leitch
© Peermusic Publishing
[Lyrics from LyricFind]

Wikipedia states:

"Catch the Wind" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released as a single in the United Kingdom on 12 March 1965 through Pye Records (Pye 7N 15801) and a few months later in the United States through Hickory Records (Hickory 45-1309). The single was backed with "Why Do You Treat Me Like You Do?" on both the United Kingdom and United States releases.

"Catch the Wind" was the first release by Donovan. It reached No.4 in the United Kingdom singles chart and No.23 in the United States Billboard Hot 100. The single version featured Donovan's vocals with echo and a string section.

Margarita Mimi Baez Fariña (April 30, 1945 – July 18, 2001) was a singer-songwriter and activist, the youngest of three daughters to a Scottish mother and Mexican-American physicist Albert Baez. She was the younger sister of the singer and activist Joan Baez.

Fariña's father, a physicist affiliated with Stanford University and MIT, moved his family frequently due to his job assignments, working in the United States and in international locations. She benefited from dance and music lessons, and took up the guitar, joining the 1960s American folk music revival.

Fariña met novelist, musician, and composer Richard Fariña in 1963 when she was 17 years old and married him at age 18 in Paris. The two collaborated on a number of influential folk albums, most notably, Celebrations for a Grey Day (1965) and Reflections in a Crystal Wind (1966), both on Vanguard Records. After Richard Fariña's death in 1966 (on Mimi's twenty-first birthday) in a motorcycle accident, Mimi moved to San Francisco where she flourished as a singer, songwriter, model, actress, and activist.