Mudcat Café message #240749

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Thread #14846 Message #240749
Posted By: Ed Pellow
10-Jun-00 - 07:58 AM
Thread Name: Northumbrian Fishing Songs
Subject: Lyr Add: Fisher Boy^^

FISHER BOY
O, the bonny fisher boy
That brings the fishes from the sea
O, the bonny fisher boy
The fisher boy got hold of me
On Bamboroughshire's rocky shore
Just as you enter Boumer Raw
There lives the bonny fisher boy
The fisher boy that beats them all
O, the bonny fisher boy
That brings the fishes from the sea
O, the bonny fisher boy
The fisher boy got hold of me
My mother sent me out one day
To gather cockles from the sea
Before I had been long away
The fisher boy fell in with me
A sailor I will never marry
Nor soldier, for he's got no brass
But I will have a fisher boy
Because I am a fisher's lass
O, the bonny fisher boy
That brings the fishes from the sea
O, the bonny fisher boy
The fisher boy got hold of me
On Bamboroughshire's rocky shore
Just as you enter Boumer Raw
There lives the bonny fisher boy
The fisher boy that beats them all