Mainly Nofolk: Ten Thousand Miles Away / Blow the Winds High-O wiki: Ten Thousand Miles Away "The Scottish Student's Song Book gives the author as "J. B. Geoghegan".[2] This is Joseph Bryan Geoghegan (c. 1816 – 1889) who was manager of the Star and Museum Music Hall in Bolton, Lancashire... Verse 5 Oh! the sun may shine through a London fog. and the Thames run bright and clear, The oceans' brine be turned to wine, And I may forget my beer - And I may forget my beer, my boys, And the landlord's quarter-day; But I'll never part from myy own sweetheart, Ten thousand miles away!" [wiki]
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