Shoals of Herring-The Clancy Brothers/Tommy Makem

[ti:Shoals of Herring] [ar:The Clancy Brothers/Tommy Makem] [al:The Boys Won't Leave The Girls Alone] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Shoals of Herring - The Clancy Brothers/Tommy Makem [00:00.39]With our nets and gear we're faring [00:05.85] [00:08.52]On the wild and wasteful ocean [00:14.78] [00:17.67]It's out there on the deep [00:20.34]That we harvest our bread [00:24.46] [00:27.81]As we hunt the bonny shoals of herring [00:37.61] [00:38.34]It was on a fine and a pleasant day [00:42.99]Out of Yarmouth harbor I was faring [00:47.58]As a cabin boy on a sailing lugger [00:52.24]For to hunt the bonny shoals of herring [00:57.19] [00:58.42]Oh we left the home grounds [01:00.76]In the month of June [01:03.10]And for Canny Shiels we soon were bearing [01:07.73]With a hundred cran of the silver darlings [01:12.43]That we'd taken from the shoals of herring [01:17.44] [01:18.77]Oh the work was hard [01:20.99]And the hours were long [01:23.38]And the treatment sure it took some bearing [01:27.93]And I used to sleep standing on my feet [01:32.46]And I'd dream about the shoals of herring [01:38.00] [01:38.81]Now you're up on deck you're a fisherman [01:43.33]And you're learning all about sea faring [01:48.00]That's your education scraps of navigation [01:52.61]As you hunt the bonny shoals of herring [01:58.06] [01:58.83]In the stormy seas and the living gales [02:03.43]I earned the gear that I was wearing [02:07.92]Sailed ten thousand miles caught ten million fishes [02:12.43]As we hunted for the shoals of herring [02:18.38] [02:20.23]Night and day we are fearing [02:26.65] [02:28.96]Come wind or wave or winter gales [02:36.10] [02:36.86]Sweating or cold growing up growing old [02:45.33] [02:49.19]As we hunt the bonny shoals of herring