Blow the wind southerly | Blow the wind southerly, southerly, southerly

Blow the wind southerly

Language: English

Our translations: CAT FRE

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 down to the deep rolling sea.
But my eye could not see it, wherever might be it,
the barque that is bearing my lover 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 clearer by far 'tis when bringing
the barque of my true love in safety to me.

Available sung texts: ← What is this?

• D. Shostakovich

D. Shostakovich sets stanza 1

Text Authorship:

from Volkslieder (Folksongs) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Blow The Wind Southerly", op. 437 (1955) [sung text not yet checked]
by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), "Blow the wind southerly", 1943, first performed 1944, stanza 1 [ voice(s) and orchestra ], from Eight British and American Folk Songs, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by William Gillies Whittaker (1876 - 1944), "Blow the wind southerly", arrangement [sung text checked 1 time]

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Researcher for this page: John Versmoren

This text was added to the website: 2004-07-11
Line count: 16
Word count: 133