The Shoals O Herrin

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With our nets and gear we're faring
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On the wild and wasteful ocean.
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It's out there on the deep we 
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harvest and reap -  our bread
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As we hunt the bonny shoals o herrin


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O it was a fine and a pleasant 
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summers day
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Out of Yarmouth harbour I was 
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faring
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As a cabin boy on a sailing 
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lugger
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We were up to hunt the shoals of 
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herring

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Now the work was hard and the hours 
long
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and the treatment surely took 
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some bearing
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there was little kindness and 
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the kicks were many
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as we hunted for the shoals o herrin

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Now we fished the Swarth and the 
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Broken Bank
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I was cook and I'd a quarter 
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share in
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And I used to sleep standing on
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 me feet
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And I dreamed about the shoals o 
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herrin

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We left the home grounds in the 
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month of June
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And for Canny Shiels we soon 
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were bearing
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With a hundred cran of the 
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silver darlings
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That we'd taken from the shoals o 
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herrin

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In the stormy seas and the living 
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gales
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Just to earn your daily bread 
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you're daring
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From the Dover Straits to the 
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Faroe Islands
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And you're following the shoals o 
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herrin

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Now you're up on deck, you're a 
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fisherman
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You can swear and show a manly 
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bearing
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Take your turn on deck with the
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 other fellows
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As you're following the shoals o 
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herrin



[Tremolo]

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Night and day we’re farin
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Come winter wind or winter gales.
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Sweat or cold, growing up, growing
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 old, or dying
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As you hunt the bonny shoals o 
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herrin.