Blow Ye Winds

Tommy Makem

Dark and stormy was the night when first I met my Peg

She'd a government band around each hand and another one 'round her leg

She'd another one 'round her leg my boys and as I sing I pray

For she's doing it grand on a distant land, three thousand miles away



Chorus:

Blow ye winds high ho, a roving I will go

I'll stay no more 'round England's shore so let the music play

I'll be off on the morning train, to cross the stormy main

I'll be on the move to my own true love, three thousand miles

away



My love she is beautiful, my love she is young

My love she is beautiful and silver sounds her tongue

Silver sounds her tongue my boys and as I sing I pray

For she's doing it grand in a distant land three thousand miles away