They Call the Wind Maria

Away out here they've got a name for rain and wind and fire

The rain is Tess, the fire is Joe, and they call the wind Maria

Maria blows the stars around and sets the clouds a-flyin'

Maria makes the mountains sound like folks was out there dyin'

Maria (Maria)

Maria (Maria)

They call the wind Maria

Before I knew Maria's name and heard her wail and whinin'

I had a gal, and she had me, and the sun was always shinin'

But then one day I left my gal

I left her far behind me

And now I'm lost, so gol' darn lost

Not even God can find me

Maria (Maria)

Maria (Maria)

They call the wind Maria

Out here they got a name for rain and wind and fire only

And when you're lost and all alone, there ain't no name for lonely

Now I'm a lost and lonely man without a star to guide me

Maria blow my love to me, I need my gal beside me

Maria (Maria)

Maria (Maria)

They call the wind Maria

Maria

Maria (Maria)

They call the wind Maria

We'd like to pick things up a little bit now, and

We got one more good Christmas song for you

Then we're, uh, gonna take a short break

Learn some more Christmas songs

Come back and do the second half

People say to us, uh, well, where do you live?

We've already told you that Paul lives in New York City

He also owns a home in Seattle, Washington

Rick lives in San Francisco Bay area

They're wild about that

Bill lives in Phoenix, I live in Las Vegas

And they say, well, do you rehearse?

Normally we say, well, when you've sung a song 33 thousand times, you

You don't think that much about rehearsing it

But I gotta tell you, yesterday was a whole lotta fun for us

Because new Christmas music, and uh

We were afraid that we might disturb some people in the hotel

So we were whispering as we sang

Not a really effective way to rehearse