"Blow Away the Morning Dew", also known as "The Baffled Knight" is an English country dance tune and air in cut time and G Major. The air is played as one part.
It is cataloged as Child #112 and Roud #11, existing in numerous variants. The first known version was published in Thomas Ravenscroft's Deuteromelia (1609) with a matching tune, making this one of the few early ballads for which there is extant original music. The song was included in Thomas d'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy (1719–1720) and Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765). Several versions were collected in England, Scotland, the USA, Canada. One version was recorded by Cecil Sharp from John Dingle (Coryton in Devon, Sept. 12, 1905). The air appears in Youth's Delight on the Flagelet (9th and 11th editions, 1697). It was printed in Barnes' English Country Dance Tunes (1986) and Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Times, vol. 2 (1859). This version was in Pills to Purge Melancholy.
This "Blow Away the Morning Dew" version was used in the Folk Songs from Somerset movement of Ralph Vaughan Williams' English Folk Song Suite (1923) along with "High Germany" and "John Barleycorn".
Norfolk fisherman Sam Larner sang this same melody to Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger in 1958-60, then was filmed performing the song in 1962.