Blow the Man Down is a sea shanty. The lyric "Blow the man down" may refer to the act of knocking a man to the ground.
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Famous quotes containing the words blow the, blow and/or man:
“He would diligently play
On the Zoetrope all day,
And blow the gay Pantechnicon all night.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“Him who trembles before the flame and the flood,
And the winds that blow through the starry ways,
Let the starry winds and the flame and the flood
Cover over and hide, for he has no part
With the lonely, majestical multitude.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Women have their heads in their hearts. Man seems to have been destined for a superior being; as things are, I think women generally better creatures than men. They have weaker appetites and weaker intellects but much stronger affections. A man with a bad heart has been sometimes saved by a strong head; but a corrupt woman is lost forever.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)