The Shoals Of Herring chords by Paddy Reilly

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Verse 1
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With our nets and gear we're farin'
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On the wide and wasteful ocean
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It was there in the deep
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Where we harvest and reap our bread
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As we hunted for the shoals of herring
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It was on a fair and a pleasant day
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Out of the Armourth Harbour I was sparing
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As a cabin boy on a sailing letter
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For to go and hunt the shoals of herring
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Oh, the work was hard,
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and the hours were long
And the trade went sure,
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took some bearing
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There was little kindness,
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and the cakes were many
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As we hunted for the shoals of herring
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Oh, we fished the sword and the broken bank
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I was cookin' and I'd a quarter sharing
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And I used to sleep standing
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on my feet
And I'd dream about the
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Shoals of Death
Oh, we left the home grounds
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in the month of June
And two canny shields we
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soon were bearing
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With a hundred clan of the
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silver darlings
That we've taken from the
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shoals of herring
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Now you're up on deck,
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you're a fisherman
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You can swear and show a manly bearing
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Take your turn and watch with
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the other fellows
While you're searching
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for the shoals of herring
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In the stormy seas and the living gales
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Just to earn your daily
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bread you're daring
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From the Dover straits to the
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Faroe Is lands
As you're following the
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shoulder of Herring
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Oh, I earned my keep
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and they paid me way
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And I earned the gear that I was wearing
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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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Oh, night and day we're faring
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Come winter wind, oh, winter gale
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Sweating of cold, growing up,
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growing older, dying
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As we haunt the body shows of herring
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