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mg Herring our Joy - CD Available (from mg) (29) RE: Upcoming herring cd (from mg) 30 Mar 21


if anyone can understand the scots dialect (or language as they say) and could translate some of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY079gfLUPE song. we have most of i think but the verse where she talks about her father and mother..mother carried the creel i think. had a scots fisherman listen to and he was not even sure of all of it...but a great little song.

but if you want to listen to all the words that would be great..here is what we came up with.

chorus
harvest of herring keep calling me
harvest of herring from out the sea
sailing boats come and sailing boats go
loaded with silver herring oh

i remember when the herring boats came
o'er the waters fae far and wide
down to the toon the curers? would run?
calling the gutters frae their fireside

my memories run lang and so dear
ilka place name was music to hear
from stornaway island bara and wick
ullapool oban shetland malaig

my father    sae weel   
my maither    carrying the creel
i went to the gutting at only 13
doon to the fallin?? at rain shine or meen (moon)

valuable gems we'd always been told
were rubies diamonds emeralds and gold
but for us fishers the riches to be
were shoals of herring from out the sea


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