Blaw the Wind Southerly

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Theme code Index	7232 7235
Also known as	Blaw the Wind Southerly Home to My Dear, Blow the Wind Southerly, Kinloch, Kinloch of Kinloch, Mrs. Kinloch's Favorite, ch oYellow John (1)
Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	Northumbrian/Borders
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece, Jig/Quadrille, Waltz/Valse/Vals
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	6/8
History	England/North East"England/North East" is not in the list (IRELAND(Munster), IRELAND(Connaught), IRELAND(Leinster), IRELAND(Ulster), SCOTLAND(Argyll and Bute), SCOTLAND(Perth and Kinross), SCOTLAND(Dumfries and Galloway), SCOTLAND(South Ayrshire), SCOTLAND(North East), SCOTLAND(Highland), ...) of allowed values for the "Has historical geographical allegiances" property.
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:J. Collingwood Bruce & John Stokoe
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Northumbrian Minstrelsy
Tune and/or Page number	p. 183
Year of publication/Date of MS	1882
Artist	Biography:Billy Ballantine & Jimmy Hunter (et al)
Title of recording	Ranting and Reeling: Dance Music of the north of England
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Topic TSCD 669
Year recorded	1998
Media
Score ()

BLOW THE WIND SOUTHERLY (HOME TO MY DEAR). AKA and see "Kinloch of Kinloch," "Mrs. Kinloch's Favorite," "Yellow John (1)." Scottish, English; Jig or Waltz. England, Northumberland. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Stokoe): AA'BB' (Carlin). The 'A' part of this tune is the 'B' part of "Over the Water to Charlie," while the second strain is new. The title appears in Henry Robson's list of popular Northumbrian song and dance tunes, published c. 1800, and the song speaks of a young woman beseeching the wind to blow southerly to bring her lover's ship to shore.

Blaw the wind southerly, southerly, southerly,
Blaw the wind southerly, south, or south-west;
My lad's at the bar, at the bar, at the bar,
My lad's at the bar whom I love best.

This is evidently a fragment of an older ballad, and is taken from Ritson's Bishoprick Garland (1834). A variation of the last two lines has been sometimes heard from old songs:--

Blaw the lad ti' the bar, ti' the bar,
Blaw the lad ti' the bar that I love best. (Bruce & Stokoe, 1882)

Printed sources: Bruce & Stokoe (Northumbrian Minstrelsy), 1882; p. 183. Carlin (English Concertina), 1977; p. 21.

Recorded sources: Topic TSCD 669, Billy Ballantine & Jimmy Hunter (et al) - "Ranting and Reeling: Dance Music of the north of England" (1998. Piccolo player Billy Ballantine {born c. 1890's} and harmonica player Jimmy Hunter were both from Northumberland).

X:1
T:Blaw the Wind Southerly
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Jig or Waltz
S:Bruce & Stokoe - Northumbrian Minstrelsy  (1882)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:G
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