Apologies for delay in getting back to this, but here are the words of Stromness Harbour at last! It was 2006 we were up there. Lots of local history in the song.

(I remembered about it after seeing two lots of shanty singers in a week - Danny Spooner in Edinburgh, and Kimber's Men in Stonehaven).

The haul-aways and weigh-haul-aways repeat in lines 2 and 4 of each verse, and the chorus goes after every second verse, according to the wordsheet I have. The tune is a bit like an inversion of S Australia, as I remember it


STROMNESS HARBOUR
Haggerdash + Stromness Primary School

1. Big ships sailed to Stromness Harbour
Haul away Stromness Harbour
Big ships came from all around
Weigh haul away.

2. Vikings came to Stromness Harbour
Dragon ships with many oars.

CHORUS: Haul away Stromness Harbour
Weigh haul away
Haul away Stromness Harbour
Weigh haul away.

3. The Crown she came to Stromness Harbour
With Covenanters sent as slaves.

4. Pirates came to Stromness Harbour
Gow was hanged in London Town.

5. The Prince of Wales came to Stromness Harbour
Taking men to Hudson Bay

6. Whalers came to Stromness Harbour
To hunt the whales off Greenland shore.

7. Franklin came to Stromness Harbour
He was lost in the Arctic ice.

8. Captain Cook came to Stromness Harbour
Took some water from Logan¡¦s Well.

9. Germans came to Stromness Harbour
Sank the Fleet in Scapa Flow.

10. Peedie boats came to Stromness Harbour
With fish and partans and divers too.


Vocab: Peedie = small, partans are crabs