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Verse 1
With our nets and
gear we're faring
On the wild and wasteful ocean.
and we earn our bread
Verse 2
As we hunted for the shoals of herring
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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
Verse 3
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O the work was hard and
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the hours long
And the treatment,
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There was little kindness
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Verse 4
O we fished the Swarth
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and the Broken Bank
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I was cook and I'd a quarter sharing
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And I used to sleep
And I'd dream about the
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shoals of herring
Verse 5
the month of June
And to Canny Shiels we
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With a hundred cran of
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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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You can swear and show a manly bearing
Take your turn on watch
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with the other fellows
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Verse 7
In the stormy seas an
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d the living gales
Just to earn your daily
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From the Dover Straits to 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
And I earned the gear
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that I was wearing
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Sailed a million miles,
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We were sailing after shoals of herring
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