Key: A major•
Verse 1
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With our nets and
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gear we're faring
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On the wild and wasteful ocean.
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Its there that we hunt an
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d we earn our bread
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As we hunted for the shoals of herring
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Verse 2
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O it was a fine and a pleasant day
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As a cabinboy on a sailing lugger
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For to go and hunt the shoals of herring
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Verse 3
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O the work was hard and the hours long
And the treatment,
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There was little kindness
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and the kicks were many
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As we hunted for the shoals of herring
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Verse 4
O we fished the Swarth
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and the Broken Bank
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And I used to sleep
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standing on my feet
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And I'd dream about the shoals of herring
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Verse 5
the month of June
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With a hundred cran of silver darlings
That we'd taken from
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the shoals of herring
Verse 6
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you're a fisherman
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Take your turn on watch with
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the other fellows
While you're searching for
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the shoals of herring
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Verse 7
In the stormy
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seas and the living gales
Just to earn your daily
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From the Dover Straits to
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the Faroe Islands
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As you're following the shoals of herring
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Verse 8
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O I earned my keep and I paid my way
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Sailed a million miles,
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caught ten million fishes
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We were sailing after shoals of herring
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