Shoal O’herring

Lyrics

[Verse 1] With our nets and gear we're faring On the wild and wasteful ocean It's out there on the deep, that we harvest our bread As we hunt the bonnie shoals of herring [Verse 2] It was a fair and a pleasant day Out of Yarmouth harbor I was faring As a cabin boy on a sailing lugger For to hunt the bonnie shoals of herring [Verse 3] O we left the home grounds in the month of June And for Canny Shiels we soon were bearing With a hundred cran of silver darlings That we'd taken from the shoals of herring [Verse 4] Now, the work was hard and the hours were long And the treatment, sure, it took some bearing And I used to sleep standing on me feet And I'd dream about the shoals of herring [Verse 5] Now you're up on deck, you're a fisherman And you're learning all about seafaring That's your education, scraps of navigation As you hunt the bonnie shoals of herring [Verse 6] In the stormy seas and the living gales I earned the gear that I was wearing Sailed a ten thousand miles, caught ten million fishes We were hunted for the shoals of herring [Verse 7] Night and day were faring Come winter wave or winter gale Sweating our cold, growing up, growing old We will hunt the bonnie shoals of herring