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Shoals of Herring

from Loose Cannons by The Jolly Rogers

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With our nets and gear we’re sailin’.
On the wild and wasteful ocean.
It’s out there on the deep,
That we harvest and reap our bread.
As we hunt the bonny shoals of herring.
It was on a fair and a pleasant day,
out of Yarmouth Harbor I was farin'
as a cabin boy on a sailin' lugger,
out to hunt the bonny shoals of herring.
Oh, we left the home grounds in the month of June,
and to canny shields we soon were bearin'
with a hundred cran of the silver darlin’s,
that we'd taken from the shoals of herring.
Now, the work was hard and the hours were long,
and the treatment surely took some bearin'.
And I used to sleep standin' on me feet,
and I’d dream about the shoals of herring.
Now you're up on deck, you're a fisherman,
and you’re learnin’ all about seafarin’.
That’s your education, scraps of navigation,
As you hunt the bonny shoals of herring.
In the stormy seas and livin' gales,
I earned the gear that I was wearin’.
Sailed ten thousand miles, caught ten million fishes,
As we hunted for the shoals of herring.
And it’s night and day we’re farin’,
Come winter whale, or winter gale.
Sweating or cold; growing up, growing old or dyin’.
As we hunt the bonny shoals of herring.

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from Loose Cannons, released September 1, 2007
w/m: Ewan McColl

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The Jolly Rogers Kansas City, Missouri

Pirates before pirates were cool. The Jolly Rogers were born as the Earth still cooled, waaaay back in 1991. Bringing maritime music, sea shanties, drinking and bawdy songs to audiences before pirates were all the rage, they've been a main stage act at venues across America and Europe. ... more

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