"Ten Thousand Miles Away", also known as "Blow ye Winds Hi-O", is a sea shanty whose writing and composition are attributed to Joseph B. Geoghegan. In his Shanties from the Seven Seas Hugill says that this was originally a shore ballad sung by street singers in Ireland in the early nineteenth century. Later it became a popular music hall number. The Scottish Student's Song Book gives the author as "J. B. Geoghegan". This is Joseph Bryan Geoghegan (c. 1816 – 1889) who was manager of the Star and Museum Music Hall in Bolton, Lancashire. The chorus beginning "Blow ye winds, heigh-ho" is very similar to the chorus of the more familiar "The Capital Ship" which is also in this section. The song is #1778 in the Roud Folk Song Index and it has been passed from singer to singer as a traditional shanty. The figure of "ten thousand miles" could well refer to the distance between England and Australia, and the separation of the lovers arises because the singer's lover has been transported. It was printed in Stan Hugill's Shanties from the Seven Seas (1994).