Alastair McDonald - Silver Darlings

Alastair McDonald singing Silver Darlings by Jim McLean, Andy Hulskramer and Bob Halfin from the album Scotland in Song.

SILVER DARLINGS

O herrings are harvests that fishermen glean
Where flashes the silver through deep ocean green,
But when herring harvests reach old Aberdeen
They're known as the silver darlings

CHORUS: Silver darlings on Aberdeen quay,
Brought by the fisherman home from the sea
To the city that stands 'twixt the Don and the Dee,
The home of the silver darlings

The boats leave the harbour, their wake spreading wide
And empty they roll with the swell of the tide.
O soon may their hatches be thrown open wide
For a catch of the silver darlings

With ice in the rigging and death down below,
The gales screaming wild and the glass hanging low,
The wives and the sweethearts are women who know
The price of the silver darlings

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• Alastair
• McDonald
• Silver
• Darlings
• Scottish
• Folk
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[UISTMAN59]

A nice song which I hadn't heard before. Thanks for poosting this one.

[saltwaterballads]

@UISTMAN59 It is a nice song isn't it. I seem to have known it all my life, although it can't really be as old as that, haha.

[EAMcDonald100]

One of my favourite songs.

[aberdeenfc1983]

@SmurfTwilight Wrong with Aberdeen like?

[PMona1505]

One of my favourite songs and one of my favourite singers...

Thanks for posting the lyrics, and great video!

[libertas1776]

Beautiful! I found Alister McDonald on a trip to England/Scotland/Wales back in the early '90s. Glad to find him posted here. Thank you, so much!

[GreenManelishi]

Beautiful. Abso-tively beautiful.

[selkie62]

lovely.. thank you!

[kingsdaughter2011]

This fellow was the first to teach me to sing Scottish style. Though he'd no idea he was doing it as I was using a casette.

[james60808]

hi Im james stewart and I have allways love,d scottish folk and ballad songs . my second cousin was one of the worlds greatest folk singers from Aberdeen (jennie Robertson) I have met in with lots of singers like Alister Mc Donald he is verry good, I see he sings one of Jeannies folk Songs ,( The Wee German Lardy) hope too see you soon Alister on your travelles , look under youTube for James60808's

[SmurfTwilight]

Nice song, except I don't particularly like Aberdeen as a city, half my family are from Aberdeen, but there's just something about it... but a lovely song all the same