X: 1
T: South Wind
C: traditional Irish
R: Song / Air / Waltz
Z: Frank Weber
D: 1971: The Chieftains: Chieftains 3
D: 1984: The Chieftains: The Chieftains in China
D: 1996: Joanie Madden: Song of the Irish Whistle
D: 1997: Randal Bays: Out of the Wood
D: 1997: Franco Morone: The South Wind
D: 2000: The Chieftains: Water from the Well
D: 2006: Zoë Conway: The Horse's Tail
N: Chords: | G | Em | Am | D7 | G | C  | G - C | G :|
N:         | G | C  | D  | D7 | G | Em | Am    | D7 |
N:         | G | C  | D  | D7 | G | D7 | G - C | G ||
N: alternative Chords:
N:         | Bm D7 | Bm D7 | D7 | D7 | Bm D7 | Em D  | G  | G :|
N:         | G     | G  D7 | D7 | D7 | Bm D7 | Bm D7 | D7 | D7 |
N:         | G     | G  D7 | D7 | D7 | Bm D7 | D7    | G  | G ||
W: 1. South wind of the gentle rain, you banish winter weather
W:    Bring salmon to the pool again, the bees among the heather
W:    If northward now you mean to blow, as you rustle soft above me
W:    God speed be with you as you go and a kiss for those that love me
W: 2. From south I come with velvet breeze, my word all nature blesses,
W:    I melt the snow and strew the leaves with flowers and warm caresses;
W:    I'll help you to dispel your woes, with joy I'll take your greeting
W:    And bear it to your loved Mayo upon my wings so fleeting.
W: 3. Ny Connaught, famed for wine and play, so leal, so gay, so loving
W:    Here's my fond kiss I send today borne on the wind in its roving.
W:    Those Munster folk are good and kind, right royally they treat me
W:    But this land I'd gladly leave behind, with your Connaught pipes to greet me.
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
Q: 1/4=100
K: G maj % 1 sharp
c2 | B3 A G2 | B3 c d2 | A3 B  AG | A4  c2 | B3 A G2 | E3 D  E2 | G3 A GF | G4      :|
d2 | g4   g2 | g3 f e2 | d3 e d^c | d4 =c2 | B3 A G2 | B3 c  d2 | A3 B AG | A2 B2 d2 |
   | g4   g2 | g3 f e2 | d3 e d^c | d4 =c2 | B3 A G2 | AB c2 F2 | G3 A GF | G4      ||