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Thread #2888   Message #14771
Posted By: Wolfgang
15-Oct-97 - 06:34 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Eyemouth Disaster / Eyemouth Tragedy
Subject: RE: Eyemouth disaster (Lyr. req.)
here are two additional verses from the Easy Club record: In their version they replace the verses 1 and 3 of Jim Prior's version respectively. I hope I'm close to the actual lyrics:

1. Three score and five sailed out that day, for the deep hole they were bound,
they all set sail from Eyemouth Bay, no better could be found.
Fourteen score of fishers brave sent out one heartful plea
that they be spared upon the wave (to reap?) white fish from the sea.

3. And from Orkney to the Channel Islands on that October day
wind it blew a thousand miles from Hoy to Newland Bay.
Seven score mothers' sons and nine were lost of(f?) Eyemouth shore,
those bonnie boys who held the line would plough the waves no more.

(I'm not sure about the place names in line 2; what they sing sounds like what I write; Hoy is an island in the Orkneys; the other place is unknown to me)

Wolfgang