Blow the Wind Southerly is a traditional English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 folk song from Northumbria

Northumbria

Northumbria was a medieval kingdom of the Angles, in what is now Northern England and South-East Scotland, becoming subsequently an earldom in a united Anglo-Saxon kingdom of England. The name reflects the approximate southern limit to the kingdom's territory, the Humber Estuary.Northumbria was...

. It tells of a lover desperately hoping for a southerly wind to blow her bonnie back home over the ocean to her. It is Roud number 2619.

Lyrics

As with all folk music, there are now multiple versions of the lyrics after years of these lyrics being passed down the generations primarily by word of mouth. However, a common version is reproduced below.

:Blow the wind southerly, southerly, southerly,

Blow the wind south o'er the bonny blue sea;

Blow the wind southerly, southerly, southerly,

Blow bonnie breeze, my lover to me.

They told me last night there were ships in the offing,

And I hurried down to the deep rolling sea;

But my eye could not see it wherever might be it,

The bark that is bearing my lover to me.

Blow the wind southerly, southerly, southerly,

Blow bonnie breeze o'er the bonny blue sea;

Blow the wind southerly, southerly, southerly,

Blow bonnie breeze, and bring him to me.

Oh, is it not sweet to hear the breeze singing,

As lightly it comes o'er the deep rolling sea?

But sweeter and dearer by far when 'tis bringing,

The bark of my true love in safety to me.

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