The Shoals Of Herring chords by Louis Killen, The Clancy Brothers

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Verse 1
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With our nets and gear we're ferrying
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On the wild and wasteful ocean
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It's out there on the deep
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that we harvest our bread
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As we hunt the bonny shoals of herring
It was on a fair and a pleasant day,
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Out of Yarmouth harbour I was farin'
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As a cabin boy on a sailin' logger,
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For to hunt the bonnie shoals of herrin'.
Oh, we left the home grounds
in the month of June,
And for canny shields we
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soon were bearing,
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With the hundred crown of the
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silver darlings
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That we'd taken from the shoals of Perrin.
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Now the work was hard
and the hours were long
And the treatment sure it
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took some bearing
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And  I used to sleep
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standing on me feet
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And I'd dream about the shoals of herring
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Now you're up on deck,
you're a fisherman
And you're learning all
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about seafaring
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That's your education,
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scraps of navigation
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As you untap on each hold of herring
In the stormy seas and the living gales
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I earned the gear that I was wearing
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Sailed ten thousand miles,
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caught ten million fishes
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As we hunted for the shoals of herring
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Night and day we're fairing
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Come winter wave our winter gale
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Sweating our coat, growing up,
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growing old
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As we hunt the bunny
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shows of hell you