Blow the Wind Southerly

It tells of a woman desperately hoping for a southerly wind to blow her lover back home over the sea to her.

[2] The chorus of "Blow the Wind Southerly" first appeared in print in the 1834 publication The Bishoprick Garland by Cuthbert Sharp.

[5] In the 1892 book Songs and Ballads of Northern England, Stokoe added to "Blow the Wind Southerly" three new verses written by John Stobbs on a broadside.

[14] "Blow the Wind Southerly" was recorded by the American quintet Bounding Main and released on their 2005 album Maiden Voyage.

I stood by the lighthouse the last time we parted, Till darkness came down o'er the deep rolling sea, And no longer I saw the bright bark[a] of my lover.