Shoals Of Herring-The Dubliners

[ti:Shoals of Herring] [ar:The Dubliners] [al:More of the Hard Stuff] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Shoals Of Herring - The Dubliners [00:05.26]With our nets and gear we're faring [00:13.52] [00:17.06]On the wild and wasteful ocean [00:27.31] [00:32.91]It's out there on the deep [00:38.05]We harvest and reap our bread [00:46.53] [00:48.06]As we hunt the bonny shoals of herring [00:59.11] [01:01.28]Oh it was a fine and a pleasant day [01:07.26]Out of Yarmouth harbor I was faring [01:11.99] [01:13.12]As a cabin boy on a sailing lugger [01:19.13]We were following the shoals of herring [01:24.00] [01:27.08]Now you're up on deck you're a fisherman [01:32.12] [01:32.73]You can swear and show a manly bearing [01:38.58]Take your turn on watch with the other fellows [01:44.39]As you're hunting for the shoals of herring [01:49.95] [01:52.19]Now we fished the Swarth and the Broken Bank [01:57.98]I was cook and I'd a quarter share in [02:03.76]And I used to sleep standing on me feet [02:09.46]As we hunted for the shoals of herring [02:15.15] [02:17.11]We left the home grounds in the month of June [02:22.96]And for Canny Shiels we soon were bearing [02:28.59]With a hundred cran of the silver darlings [02:34.34]That we'd taken from the shoals of herring [02:39.78] [02:41.99]In the stormy seas and the living gales [02:47.67]Just to earn your daily bread you're faring [02:53.23]From the Dover Straits to the Faroe Islands [02:59.00]And you're hunting for the shoals of herring [03:05.71] [03:06.70]Well I earned my keep and I paid my way [03:12.26]And I earned the gear that I was wearing [03:17.92]Sailed a million miles caught ten million fishes [03:23.72]We were hunting after shoals of herring [03:29.65] [03:31.29]You're net rope man now bor you're on the move [03:36.82]And you're learning all about sea faring [03:42.46]That's your education scraps of navigation [03:46.94] [03:48.23]As you hunt the bonny shoals of herring [03:55.04] [03:57.02]Night and day the seas were daring [04:05.69] [04:07.25]Come wind or calm or winter gales [04:17.77] [04:19.22]Sweating or cold growing up growing old or dying [04:32.25] [04:32.89]As you hunt the bonny shoals of herring