Liam Clancy - Shoals Of Herring

With our nets and gear we're faring
On the wild and wasteful ocean.
It's out there on the deep we harvest and keep our bread
As we hunted for the shoals of herring 1 4 1




It was on a fair and a pleasant day 5




Out of Yarmouth harbor I was faring 1 4 1




As a cabin boy on a sailing lugger 4 5 1




For to hunt the bonny shoals of herring

O the work was hard and the hours were long
And the treatment, sure it took some bearing
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

You're net rope man now, boy you're on the move
You can swear and show a manly bearing
Take your turn on watch with the other fellows
While following the shoals of herring

Now you're up on deck, you're a fisherman
And you're learning all about sea faring
That's your education scraps of navigation
As you hunt the bonnie shoals of herring

In the stormy seas and the living gales
I earned the gear that I was wearing
Sailed ten thousand miles caught ten million fishes
As we hunted for the shoals of herring

(Last verse sung with mininimal accompaniment) 1 5 1
And it's night and day we're faring 4 5
Come winter wave or winter gale
1 4 1 4 1 6m




Sweating or cold growing up growing old or dying 1 4 5 1




As we hunt the bonnie shoals of herring

Category:

Music

Tags:

• folk

[KatiBerlinben]

so beautiful...

5***** :)

[SSchus87]

Rest in Peace dear Liam. You will not be missed or forgotten. Your music, you, will live in us forever. Heaven's music just got a bit better....

[Hunter00750]

RIP my friend, ...

[jimbobjames21121]

i nave never heard this song before but it sounds lovely :)

[Squarekn0t]

Ai, bejesus the way ya whirl yar whiskey around, da ya think i'm dead!

[kintakintyea]

Yea canna beet fried Hirren an oatmeal' affa gweed tae ait!

[76countrylad]

Rest in peace Liam. What a legacy of great music and song you and your brothers and Tommy Makem have left us. No doubt you'll not be forgotton!!!

[willgonow]

lovely song not so sure about the video

[gordonhigh]

Excellent, simply excellent.

[edgeyp12]

This is wonderful.

[kiesersousa]

Liam - Ar deis de go riabh a haimn RIP