Winding Through the Wind

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It has been a whirlwind here. My dad is in the hospital, and we think this may be terminal. Plus there's all of this work I've been doing at the office to get ready for the conference. I need a break. What better break than a new countdown? This was requested/suggested by @JohnRoberts (so, as usual, blame him), who said I should do a "wind" countdown after I had two songs with "wind" in the title of my countdown of favorite pop standards. Wish granted. And here's where the English language gets weird. I pity people who actually have to learn this as a "new" language. Steve Martin once joked about what he hated about going to France: "Those French have a different word for everything!" (Not true: souvenir isn't really "translated" out of French for our use.) Yeah, and we don't. Case in point: WIND. The countdown I'll be doing is songs that reference that meteorological force that is currently coming out of the northwest here, making bitter cold temperatures even worse. But there's also the word wind, pronounced with a long "I" sound, describing what you do to a toy or a road with many curves. No, not that kind of "wind." My countdown features that thing where Dylan found his answers, my friend. I'll start that later today, after I get home from seeing my dad in the hospital. Meanwhile, here's a song that mentions the "other" wind, by my dad's favorite singer: