Interesting Facts about the Blow Ye Winds (extra verses)
I want to introduce Blow Ye Winds (extra verses). Stan Hugill in his “Shanties From the Seven Seas” gives us three versions of this song, after the description of version A he mention that:
… Many of the verses sung to these refrains were also used by seamen — often in the unprintable form! …
These are those five verses mentioned by Stan Hugill, I think it will be a big loss to not sing these verses, and as far as I am aware, nobody sang these verses but Stan Hugill, or people who he heard them from. To make my theory even stronger I mention fact that verses don’t have a title or an author or any musical notation, so I will reconstruct them using notation from version A of Stan Hugill’s book.
The song will be reconstructed by myself as the capstan shanty.
The source of this sea shanty
The music: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 219).
The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 219, 220).
The Record of the Blow Ye Winds (extra verses)
You also can find this record on my YouTube channel here or directly listen below. Additionally, if you want to share your opinion about the record or share your opinion you can do it in my Facebook forum here, or leave a comment at the bottom of this blog article.
The full lyrics
Blow Ye Winds (extra verses)
We have a cock in our barton, will cluck like any hen,
And often to myself I think, why ye are just the sen!
– Singin’ blow, ye winds, in the mornin’,
– Blow, ye winds, high-ho!
– See all clear yer runnun’ gear,
– An’ blow, me bully boys, blow!
* 2 *
We have a flower in our garden which we call Marigold,
And if you will not when you can, you shall not when you will.
* 3 *
As I went out one May morning to view the medows gay,
I met a pretty dairy-maid all in the new mown hay.
* 4 *
As I was ridding out one day I saw some pooks of hay;
Is this not a very pretty place for boys and maids to play?
* 5 *
There was a jolly farmer’s son who kept sheep on a hill,
He sallied forth one summer’s morn to see what he could kill.