182 - Blow, ye winds of morning - Capstan Shanty This song mentioned by Stan Hugill - "Shanties from the Seven Seas" (1961) on page 220, it comes from Richard Runciman Terry's "The Shanty Book Part II". R R Terry has it as a capstan shanty, same give it to us, Stan Hugill in his book. Also intriguingly Terry says it is the only instance of a sea song being sung as a shanty. In the case that this shanty was the only instance of a sea song being sung as a shanty, Stan Hugill however, pointed out examples of sea songs such as "Rolling Home" or "High Barbary". They were all popular sea songs that the end of the day finished as a shanty. Terry gives this song as a shanty from the shantyman known as - Mr. Short of Watchet, Somerset. This song will be reconstructed as the capstan shanty. "Shanties from the Seven Seas" by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 220). Blow, ye winds of morning As I walked out one morning fair to view the meadows round, It's there I spied a maiden fair come trip-ping o'er the ground. - O blow, ye winds of morning, - Blow, ye winds, hi! Ho! - Clear away the morning dew, - And blow boys blow. *2* My father has a milk-white steed and he is in the stall, He will not eat his hay or corn, Nor will not go at all. *3* When we goes in the farmer's yard and sees a flock of geese, We dang their eyes and cuss their tighs And knock down five or six. *4* As I was a walking Downby the riverside, It's there I saw a lady fair A-bathing in the tide. *5* As I was a-walking out by the moonlight, It's there I spied a yaller gal, And her eyes they shone so bright. *6* As I was a-walking Down Paradise Street, It's there I met old John de Goss, He said, 'Will you stand treat?"
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