This version of "Blow, Ye Winds" is a ballad-like sea song. It is one of a number of songs sung to the same tune. This version is printed in Hugel’s Shanties from the Seven Seas (1994). He prints three versions. This is his version B. His version C, from Joanna Colcord's Songs of American Sailormen (1938), is in this collection as "Blow, Ye Winds". Unlike that American song, this version is probably British in origin.