The Wind is Warm Again

Bob Nolan/Robert Wagoner
Original copyright: Undetermined

You came like warm wind from the sea
And touched my heart with ecstasy,
Then promised to come back to me
When winds are warm again.
And so, I wait beside the shore
And so I will forevermore
Until I hold you as before.
The winds were warmer then.

Oh, darling, may you never guess
That there can be such loneliness
Or even know I’ve loved you so
Through all these empty years.

My teardrops fall and kiss the sand
Where once I saw you press your hand.
I close my eyes and there you stand.
The wind is warm again.
The wind is warm again.

The undated words were found scribbled on a sheet of notepaper from a Chicago hotel. Possibly, Bob wrote them in 1940 during the year the Sons of the Pioneers lived in Chicago when they recorded the Orthacoustic Symphonies of the Sage and appeared on the Uncle Ezra Show. However, the Pioneers were often in Chicago for rodeo appearances so we cannot date the song by the notepaper alone. We have been unable to find sheet music.

After his death, Bob's daughter gave the poem to artist-singer Robert Wagoner who composed a melody you and re-titled it “Warm Again”.

"This was a poem that Bobbie Nolan sent to me that I wrote music to and recorded for her. I think it shows the soft sentimental side that was also very apparent in the beautiful island material that Bob wrote." (Robert Wagoner)

Bob Nolan used the title of this song as the final line in his last poem, “My Mistress the Desert”.

We do not have any sheet music for this song.