Shoals Of Herring Lyrics - Singles - T. Duggins

With our nets and gear we're faring 

On the wild and wasteful ocean. 

Its there that we hunt and we earn our bread 

As we hunted for the shoals of herring 

O it was a fine and a pleasant day 

Out of Yarmouth harbor I was faring 

As a cabinboy on a sailing lugger 

For to go and hunt the shoals of herring 

O the work was hard and the hours long 

And the treatment, sure it took some bearing 

There was little kindness and the kicks were many 

As we hunted for the shoals of herring 

O we fished the Swarth and the Broken Bank 

I was cook and I'd a quarter sharing 

And I used to sleep standing on my feet 

And I'd dream about the shoals of herring 

O we left the homegrounds in the month of June 

And to Canny Shiels we soon were bearing 

With a hundred cran of silver darlings 

That we'd taken from the shoals of herring 

Now you're up on deck, you're a fisherman 

You can swear and show a manly bearing 

Take your turn on watch with the other fellows 

While you're searching for the shoals of herring 

In the stormy seas and the living gales 

Just to earn your daily bread you're daring 

From the Dover Straits to the Faroe Islands 

As you're following the shoals of herring 

O I earned my keep and I paid my way 

And I earned the gear that I was wearing 

Sailed a million miles, caught ten million fishes 

We were sailing after shoals of herring