{"id":237,"date":"2020-04-05T15:42:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T15:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=237"},"modified":"2020-04-05T15:43:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T15:43:11","slug":"blow-ye-winds-trad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Blow ye winds. Trad."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I ga&#8217;ed oot one morning fair<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To view the meadows round<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well there I saw a pretty girl<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Come trippin&#8217; o&#8217;er the ground<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chorus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sing blow ye winds in the morning<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Blow ye winds aye-o<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Clear away the runnin&#8217; gear<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>And blow, boys, blow<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>My father has a milk white steed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He keeps it in the stall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It winnae eat it&#8217;s hay or corn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it winnae go at all<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I told my tale unto the maid<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She laughed right in my face<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I took her off to the horses stall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I put her in the horses place<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>She says this is an awful thing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To treat a maiden so<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take off the reigns and halter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And to sea with you I&#8217;ll go<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>She dressed up in her Sunday best<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To meet me at the church<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But my lugger sailed the night before<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I left her in the lurch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>To my fathers farm I can&#8217;t go back<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For fear she might be there<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the marriage game is not for me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To that I roundly swear<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I ga&#8217;ed oot one morning fair To view the meadows round Well there I saw a pretty girl Come trippin&#8217; o&#8217;er the ground Chorus Sing blow ye winds in the morning Blow ye winds aye-o Clear away the runnin&#8217; gear And blow, boys, blow My father has a milk white steed He keeps it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=237\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blow ye winds. Trad.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}