X:2
T:Blow, Ye Winds, Blow
T:The Elfin Knight
B:Bronson
C:Trad
O:Barry, JAF, XVIII (1905), pp212 and 49-50, as from
O:"Family Songs compiled by Rosa Allen," 1899, p.14 in
O:whose family, of Medfield, Mass., it had long been traditional.
O:Also in Linscott, 1939, pp. 170-71.
H:The Linscott copy was sung by Lucy Allen, West Newton, Mass.;
learned from her uncle, c. 1870.
Barry connects this tune with "Dunnocht Head" (R.A. Smith, The
Scottish Minstrel, III, p.96), but if perhaps there is a resemblance in
first and last phrases, this does not hold true of the earlier copy in
the SMM, No. 375.
N:Child 2
M:4/4
L:1/8
K:G
G2 B2 d2 dd | e2 ee d2 z2 | Ld4   Ld4   |
w:You must make me a fine Hol-land shirt, Blow, blow
d2 cG A2>A2 | B2 B2 A2 AA | BB dB G2 z2 |
w:blow ye winds, blow, And not have in it a stitch of need-le work,
G2 G2 A2 GA |IB2 G2 G2 z2 |]
w:Blow, ye winds that a-rise, blow, blow.
W:
W:You must make me a fine Hol-land shirt,
W:Blow, blow, blow ye winds, blow,
W:And not have in it a stitch of need-le work,
W:Blow, ye winds that a-rise, blow, blow.
W:
W:You must wash it in yonder spring,
W:Where there's never a drop of water in.
W:
W:You must dry it on yonder thorn,
W:Where the sun never yet shone on.
W:
W:My Father's got an acre of land,
W:You must dig it with a goose quill.
W:
W:You must sow it with one seed,
W:You must reap it with your thumb nail.
W:
W:You must thrash it on yonder sea,
W:And not get it wet, or let a kernel be.
W:
W:You must grind it on yonder hill,
W:Where there yet has ne'er stood a mill.
W:
W:When you've done, and finished your work,
W:Bring it unto me, and you shall have your shirt.