Intro
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O, it was a fine and a pleasant day 
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Out of Yarmouth harbour I was faring  
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As a cabin boy on a sailing lugger  
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For to go and hunt the shoals of herring  

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O, the work was hard and the hours were long 
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And the treatment sure it took some bearing  
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There was little kindness and the kicks were many  
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As we hunted for the shoals of herring 
  
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O, we fished the Swarth and the Broken Bank 
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I was a cook and I'd a quarter-sharing 
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And I used to sleep, standing on my feet 
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And I'd dream about the shoals of herring  

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O, we left the home grounds in the month of June 
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And to canny Shiels we soon was bearing 
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With a hundred cran of the silver darlings 
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That we'd taken from the shoals of herring  

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Now you're up on deck, you're a fisherman 
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You can swear and show a manly bearing 
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Take your turn on watch with the other fellows 
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While you're searching for the shoals of herring  

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In the stormy seas and the living gales  
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Just to earn your daily bread you're daring  
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From the Dover Straits to the Faroe Islands  
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As you're following the shoals of herring  

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O, I earned me keep and I paid my way  
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And I earned the gear that I was wearing 
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Sailed a million miles, caught ten-million fishes 
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We were sailing after shoals of herring 

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