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The Shoals Of Herring
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Phil Ochs
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6/4 time
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1. O, it was a fine and a plea - sant day
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out of yar - mouth har-bour I was far - ing
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C G (F) (G) C
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as a cab - in boy on a sail - ing lug - ger
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for to go and hunt the shoals of her - ring
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2. 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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3. O, we finished the swarth and the broken bank
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I was 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 shaols of herring
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4. O, we left the home grounds in the month of June
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and to canny shiels we soon were 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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5. Now your 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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6. In the stormy seas and the living gales
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just to earn your daily bread your daring
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from the dover straits to the faroe islands,
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as your following the shoals of herring
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7. O, I earned me keep and I paid me way
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and I eaned the gear 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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(The original radio version had a different first verse which has a
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Slightly different melody it goes as follows)
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4/4 time
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With our nets and gear we're far - ing
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On the wild and waste - ful o - cean
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It's there on the deep that we (6/4 time) har - vest
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And reap our bread as hunt the bon - ny shoals of her -
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Ring
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