Blow the wind southerly See base text
Language: English
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.
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Composition:
- Set to music 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
Text Authorship:
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Manuel Capdevila i Font) , "Bufa el vent cap al sud", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Que le vent souffle du sud", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: John Versmoren
This text was added to the website: 2004-07-11
Line count: 16
Word count: 133