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?"