"Blow Ye Winds Westerly" is also known as "Song of the Fishes", "Come All You Bold Sailormen", "Blow the Winds Southerly" and "Boston Come All Ye". This was a capstan shanty and sailors would take turns with verses, giving a new fish each time for as long as was necessary. It was printed in: Colcord's Songs of American Sailormen (1938) (as "The Boston Come-All-Ye"), Harlow's Chanteying Aboard American Ships (1962), Hugill's Shanties from the Seven Seas (1961), Reeves' (ed.) The Idiom of the People (1965), Fowke and Mills' Canada's Story in Song, Creighton's Folksongs from Southern New Brunswick (1971), Shay's American Sea Songs and Chanteys (1948) (as "Song of the Fishes"), John and Alan Lomax's American Ballads and Folk Songs (1934), Lomax's The Folk Songs of North America (1960) (as "The Fish of the Sea"), Botkin's A Treasury of New England Folklore (1965) (as "The Boston Come-All-Ye"), Boni's (ed.) The Fireside Book of Folk Songs (1947) and Fred and Irwin Silber's Folksinger's Wordbook (1973) (as "Blow Ye Winds Westerly"). It is included in Roud's Folksong Index as #472. It was recorded by Charlotte Decker on Blow the Wind Westerly and Pete Seeger on Come All You Bold Sailormen.