Here are a couple of further suggestions (for future reference perhaps?) both from the N.Sea coast, one Scottish, one Yorkshire. Both relating to women connected with the sea, rather than on it. The first is a bit "drawing room" for some tastes, the other is strictly trad.

CALLER HERRIN'                   (Lady Mairn)

Buy my caller herrin',
They're bonnie fish and halesome farin'
Buy my caller herrin',
New drawn from the forth.

When ye were sleepin' on yer pillows,
Dream'd ye ought of our poor fellows,
Riding bravely o'er the billows,
All to fill the woven willows.

And when the creel o' herrin' passes,
Ladies clad in silks and laces,
Gather in their braw pelisses,
Toss their heads and screw their faces.

Buy my caller herrin',
O ye may ca' them vulgar farin',
Wives and mithers, maist despairin',
Ca' them lives o' men,

Caller herrin'
Caller herrin'.


STOW BROW

In Stow Brow in Stow Brow a fair maid did dwell
She loved an handsome sailor lad and he loved her as well
He promised for to marry her when back he did return
But bad luck and cruel hardship upon this couple fell

As they were a-sailing a storm did arise
The sun was overshaded and dismal was the sight
The wind it blew an hurricane which made the billows roar
And it tossed these poor sailors all on the rocky shore

Now some of them was single men and some of them had wives
And all of these poor sailors was a-struggling for their lives
But this unfortunate young man who happened to be there
And instead of getting married he got a watery grave

Now from Stow Brow from Stow Brow to Robin Hood's Bay
She spied the stranded sailor all on the sands he lay
She boldly plucked up to him and amazed she did stand
For she saw it was her own true love by the marks on his right hand

She kissed him caressed him ten thousand times o'er
Crying all these cruel billows have tossed my love on shore
How happy and contented she lay down by his side
And a few more minutes afterwards this fair young maiden died

Now in Robin Hood's Bay churchyard this couple they do lay
And for a memorandum a stone is put there
And all of you young couples that do pass by there
I'd have you all to shed a tear for the couple that lie there