Shoals of Herring

歌詞

With our nets and gear we're faring O'er the wild and wasteful ocean It's out there on the deep That we harvest our bread As we hunt the bonny shoals of herring It was on a fair and a pleasant day Out of Yarmouth harbour I was faring As a cabin boy on a sailing lugger For to hunt the bonny shoals of herring Oh, we left our home grounds in the month of June And for Galashiels we soon were bearing With a hundred cran of the silver darlings That we'd taken from the shoals of herring Now the work was hard and the hours were long And the treatment surely took some bearing And I used to sleep standing on me feet And I'd dream about the shoals of herring 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 bonny shoals of herring In the stormy seas and the living gale I earned the gear that I was wearing Sailed ten thousand miles, caught ten million fishes As we hunted for the shoals of herring Night and day we're faring Come winter wave or winter gale Sweating our course Growing up, growing old As we hunt the bonny shoals of herring