(The Bonnie) Shoals of Herring (2012 - Remaster)-The Dubliners

[ti:(The Bonnie) Shoals of Herring] [ar:The Dubliners] [al:More of the Hard Stuff (2012 - Remaster) (2012 - Remaster)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00](The Bonnie) Shoals of Herring (2012 - Remaster) - The Dubliners [00:05.00]With our nets and gear we're faring [00:14.28] [00:17.05]On the wild and wasteful ocean [00:30.85] [00:32.95]It's out there on the deep [00:37.82] [00:38.40]We harvest and reap our bread [00:47.54] [00:48.25]As we hunt the bonny shoals of herring [01:00.51] [01:01.38]Oh it was a fine and a pleasant day [01:07.35]Out of Yarmouth harbor I was faring [01:12.69] [01:13.26]As a cabin boy on a sailing lugger [01:19.10]We were following the shoals of herring [01:25.84] [01:27.18]Now you're up on deck you're a fisherman [01:32.87]You can swear and show a manly bearing [01:38.00] [01:38.58]Take your turn on watch with the other fellows [01:44.23]As you're hunting for the shoals of herring [01:52.08]Now we fished the Swarth and the Broken Bank [01:58.02]I was cook and I'd a quarter share in [02:03.11] [02:03.68]And I used to sleep standing on me feet [02:09.41]As we hunted for the shoals of herring [02:16.05] [02:17.21]We left the home grounds in the month of June [02:22.82]And for Canny Shiels we soon were bearing [02:28.45]With a hundred cran of the silver darlings [02:34.21]That we'd taken from the shoals of herring [02:40.90] [02:42.12]In the stormy seas and the living gales [02:47.72]Just to earn your daily bread you're faring [02:52.54] [02:53.31]From the Dover Straits to the Faroe Islands [02:58.89]And you're hunting for the shoals of herring [03:05.53] [03:06.59]Well I earned my keep and I paid my way [03:12.14]And I earned the gear that I was wearing [03:17.17] [03:17.85]Sailed a million miles caught ten million fishes [03:23.54]We were hunting after shoals of herring [03:29.98] [03:31.33]You're net rope man now bor you're on the move [03:36.64]And you're learning all about sea faring [03:41.79] [03:42.36]That's your education scraps of navigation [03:47.45] [03:48.25]As you hunt the bonny shoals of herring [03:55.68] [03:57.02]Night and day the seas were daring [04:04.68] [04:07.18]Come wind or calm or winter gales [04:18.10] [04:19.28]Sweating or cold growing up [04:25.42] [04:25.97]Growing old or dying [04:32.90]As you hunt the bonny shoals of herring