184 - Blow Ye Winds (extra verses) - Capstan Shanty 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 do not to sing these verses, and as far as I am aware, nobody sang these verses but Stan Hugill, or people who 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. This song will be reconstructed as the capstan shanty. "Shanties from the Seven Seas" by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 219, 220). 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.
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