F# B F#
F# B F#
F# B F# C# B
F# B F#
O, it was a fine and a pleasant day
A#m D#m B C#
Out of Yarmouth harbour I was faring
D#m C# B
As a cabin boy on a sailing lugger
F# C# F#
For to go and hunt the shoals of herring
F# B F#
O, the work was hard and the hours were long
A#m D#m B C#
And the treatment sure it took some bearing
D#m C# B
There was little kindness and the kicks were many
G#m F# B
As we hunted for the shoals of herring
F# B F#
O, we fished the Swarth and the Broken Bank
A#m D#m B C#
I was a cook and I'd a quarter-sharing
D#m F# B
And I used to sleep, standing on my feet
G#m F# B
And I'd dream about the shoals of herring
B Em-B
F# B F#
O, we left the home grounds in the month of June
A#m D#m B C#
And to canny Shiels we soon was bearing
D#m F# B
With a hundred cran of the silver darlings
G#m F# B
That we'd taken from the shoals of herring
F# C# B
F# C# B
D#m F# C# B
F# C# B
F# B F#
Now you're up on deck, you're a fisherman
A#m D#m B C#
You can swear and show a manly bearing
D#m F# B
Take your turn on watch with the other fellows
G#m F# B
While you're searching for the shoals of herring
D#m C#
In the stormy seas and the living gales
G#m B
Just to earn your daily bread you're daring
D#m B
From the Dover Straits to the Faroe Islands
C# B
As you're following the shoals of herring
C# B C# B
F# B F#
O, I earned me keep and I paid my way
B C#
And I earned the gear that I was wearing
D#m F# B
Sailed a million miles, caught ten-million fishes
G#m F# B
We were sailing after shoals of herring
F# C# B
D#m C# B
D#m F# C# B
D#m F# C# F