They Call the Wind Mariah

Song written by Alan J. Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe for their 1951 Broadway musical Paint Your Wagon.

Away out here they got a name

For rain and wind and fire

The rain is Tess, the fire’s Jo

And they call the wind Mariah

Mariah blows the stars around

And sends the clouds a-flyin’

Mariah makes the mountains sound

Like folks were up there dyin’

Mariah, Mariah

They call the wind Mariah

Before I knew Mariah’s name

And heard her wail and whinin’

I had a girl and she had me

And the sun was always shinin’

But then one day I left my girl

I left her far behind me

And now I’m lost, so gone and lost

Not even God can find me