X: 1
T:South Wind, The
S:Digital Tradition, southwnd
D:Recorded by Archie Fisher. He credits it to Donal O'Sullivan.
D:Redpath, who also recorded it, calls it trad. SD, BW
O:Irish
Z:dt:southwnd
M:3/4
L:1/8
Q:1/4=100
W:South wind of the gentle rain, you banish winter weather
W:Bring salmon to the pool again, the bees among the heather
W:If northward now you mean to blow, as you rustle soft above me
W:God speed be with you as you go and a kiss for those that love me
W:
W:From south I come with velvet breeze, my word all nature blesses,
W:I melt the snow and strew the leaves with flowers and warm caresses;
W:I'll help you to dispel your woes, with joy I'll take your greeting
W:And bear it to your loved Mayo upon my wings so fleeting.
W:
W:Ny Connaught, famed for wine and play, so leal, so gay, so loving
W:Here's my fond kiss I send today borne on the wind in its roving.
W:Those Munster folk are good and kind, right royally they treat me
W:But this land I'd gladly leave behind, with your Connaught pipes to greet me.
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