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Oh it was a fine and a pleasant day
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Out of Yarmouth harbor I was faring
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As a cabin boy on a sailing lugger
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For to hunt the bonny shoals of herring
Now you're up on deck, you're a fisherman
You can swear show a manly barren
Take your turn and watch with the other fellas
As you hunt the bonnie shoals of herring
Well I earned my keep and I paid my way
And I earned the gear that I was wearing
I sailed a million mile, caught ten million fishes
We were dreaming of the shoals of herring
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Night and day the seas were daring
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Come wind oh come more winter again
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Sweating or cold, growing up, growing old, Or dying
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As we dream about the shoals of herring