Blow the wind southerly (William Whittaker)

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• (Posted 2023-12-20)  CPDL #78391:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-20).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 544 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Blow the wind southerly
Composer: Anonymous (Traditional)
Arranger: William Whittaker
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1920 Bayley & Ferguson
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Original text and translations

English text

Blow the wind southerly, southerly, southerly,
Blow the wind south o’er the bonny blue sea;
Blow the wind southerly, southerly, southerly,
Blow, bonny breeze, my lover to me.

They told me last night there were ships in the offing,
And I hurried me down to the deep rolling sea,
But my eye could not see it, where-ever might be it—
The boat that is bearing my lover to me.

Blow the wind southerly, southerly, southerly,
Blow the wind south, that my lover may come;
Blow the wind southerly, southerly, southerly,
Blow, bonny breeze, and bring him safe home.

I stood by the lighthouse the last time we parted
Till darkness came down o’er the deep-rolling sea,
And no longer I saw the bright boat of my lover,
Blow, bonny breeze, and bring him to me.

Blow the wind southerly, southerly, southerly,
Blow, bonny breeze o’er the bonny blue sea;
Blow the wind southerly, southerly, southerly,
Blow bonny breeze, and bring him to me.

Is it not sweet to hear the breeze singing,
As lightly it comes o’er the deep rolling sea?
But sweeter and dearer by far, when ’tis bringing
The boat of my true love in safety to me.