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.