By:Shannon Slaughter · Source Recording: Ronnie Bowman (2000)
Tonight that lonesome wind is on the prowl again
I hear it howling out my door
It's like a long-lost friend staying with me 'til the end
'Cause I've nothing to live for any more
She lies in the cold hard ground
Beneath the settin' sun
Each time the wind cuts through me
I think of what I've done
I can't forget the night my hands were clenched so tight
I heard the lonesome wind through the scream
Now I'm haunted so with fear 'cause the one I love so dear
Comes to me each windy night in my dreams
By:Shannon Slaughter · Source Recording:Ronnie Bowman (2000)
“Lonesome Wind” is a song recorded by Ronnie Bowman, the Virginia-born bluegrass singer and songwriter.
The song gives the wind a voice. It seems to whisper to the singer that the one he loves is gone, and he is left alone with that cold, confirming sound — the lonesome wind carrying the news of a love lost.
Bowman’s plaintive lead singing suited the song’s mournful subject.
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