The Shoals Of Herring Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[C]With our nets and gear we're far[G]ing[C]
On the wild and [F]waste[C]ful ocean
It's out [G]there on the [F]deep [C]we
harvest and [F]reap [C]our bread
As we hunt the bonny [F]shoals [C]of [G]herring[C]
Oh it was a fine and a pleasent day
Out of Yarmouth harbour I was [G]faring
As [C]a cabin boy on a sailing lugger
We were following [G]the shoals of herring
[C]Now you're up on deck
You're a fisherman
You can swear and show a manly [G]bearing
Take your [C]turn on watch
with the other fellas
As you're hunting for
[G]the shoals of her[C]ring
Now we fished the swarth
and the broken bank
I was cook and I'd a quarter [G]sharing
And [C]I used to sleep standing on me feet
As we hunted for [G]the shoals of [C]herring
We left the homegrounds in
the month of June
And for canny shiels we soon were [G]baring
With a [C]hundred cran of the silver darlins
That we'd taken from
[G]the shoals of her[C]ring
In the stormy seas and the living gales
Just to earn your daily
bread [G]you're faring
From [C]the Dover Strait to the Faroe Islands
And you're hunting for
[G]the shoals of [C]herring
Well I earned me keep and I paid me way
And I earned the gear that I was [G]wearing
Sailed [C]a million miles
Caught ten million fishes
We were hunting after shoals
[G]of herrin[C]g
You're net ropeman now
Or you're on the move
And you're learning all
about sea- [G]faring
[C]That's your education
Scraps of navigation
As you hunt the bonny [G]shoals of [C]herring
Night and day the seas we're [G]daring
[C]Come wind or calm or [C]winter gale
Sweating or cold
Grow[C]ing up, growing [F]old [C]or dying
As you hunt the bonny shoals of [G]herring
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