Wasteland

Bob Nolan
Original copyright: Unknown

Woo-Woo-Woo-Woo
Winds of a wasteland blowing going
Woo-Woo-Woo-Woo
Winds of a wasteland blowing.

Darkness sends the wailing winds
Sweeping the desert land
A strange melody is played to me
By the whispering winds of the sand.
Breezes stirring under the moon
Winds of a wasteland hummina a tune

Woo-Woo-Woo-Woo
Winds of a wastland blowing going
Woo-Woo-Woo-Woo
Winds of a wasteland blowing

Suns starts glowing, wind stops blowing
Over the desert sand.
Fasting away with the coming of day
Winds of a blowing wasteland.

Hundreds of Bob Nolan's songs were lost in a garage fire so we are constantly on the lookout for bits and pieces he left with friends. He wrote on whatever paper was handy when the spirit moved him - and left them behind. He also had lfriends copy them out for him because he was embarrassed about his poor spelling. The lyric sheet for "Wasteland" was found in a collection of Bob Nolan compositions and ephemera of a lady, one of his close friends. This, from the Bob Nolan collection in the estate of Frances Irvine, is all we have of this song. To our knowledge, it was never commercially recorded.

We are in the process of researching the writer. It is possible that Bob dictated it to one of his friends because it is definitely not his handwriting. It is equally possible that someone else wrote it. Because of the provenance, we will assume it is his and include it as a possible Nolan song until we learn otherwise.

We invite the reader to contact us if you have any information at all about this lyric.