Cast Your Fate To the Wind

Steve Alaimo

Words by Carel Werber, Music by Vince Guaraldi



AS AN INTRUMENTAL by the Vince Guaraldi Trio, it peaked at # 22 in 1963

Competing version by Martin Denny didnt make the Top 100.

Vocal versions released later by Steve Alaimo (# 89 in 1965) and by Shelby Flint

(# 61 in 1965).



A month of nights, a year of days

Octobers drifting into Mays

You set your sail when the tide comes in

And you cast your fate to the wind



You shift your course along the breeze

Won't sail up wind on memories

The empty sky is your best friend

And you just cast your fate to the wind



That time has such a way of changing a man throughout the years

And now you're rearranging your life through all your tears

Alone, alone



There never was, there couldn't be

A place in time for men to be

Who'd drink the dark and laugh at day

And let their wildest dreams blow away



So now you're old, you're wise, you're smart

You're just a man with half a heart

You wonder how it might have been

Had you not cast your fate to the wind