The tune and one verse appears in Bruce and Stokoe's Northumbrian Minstrelsy (1882).

Blaw the wind southerly, southerly, southerly,
Blaw the wind southerly, south, or south-west;
My lad's at the bar, at the bar, at the bar,
My lad's at the bar whom I love best.

The editors comment: "This is evidently a fragment of an older ballad, and is taken from [Cuthbert] Sharp's Bishoprick Garland [1834]. A variation of the last two lines has been sometimes heard from old songs:

Blaw the lad ti' the bar, ti' the bar, ti' the bar,
Blaw the lad ti' the bar that I love best.

Roud Folk Song Index number 2619. A lot of people in the UK will, like me, have learned the three-verse set while at school.