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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
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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 and watch with the other fellas
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As you hunt the bonnie shoals of herring
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Well I earned my keep and I paid my way
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And I earned the gear that I was wearing
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I sailed a million mile, caught ten million fishes
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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 gale
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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
