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Thread #113407   Message #2428096
Posted By: s&r
01-Sep-08 - 06:36 PM
Thread Name: Is anyone going to Fylde?
Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
The song is the Jacinta. It's in Alan's songbook 'In My Homeland' The books are available from Alan Bell 55 the Strand Fleetwood complete with music. Anyway here are the lyrics:

Now her keel was laid one morning in the year of '72
In a famous yard in Wallsend where the men were skilled and true
They riveted and welded good steel sheets upon her frame
'til at last she was completed and Jacinta is her name

Cho.
She is homeward bound returning
she is homeward bound returning
she is homeward bound returning
from the sea
the Arctic Sea
The Norway sea
the Irish Sea

She was one of seven sisters in the bold Marr family
Bill Taylor was her Skipper on her maiden trip to sea
For to fish the coast of Greenland and the distant Norway shore
For cod and hake and haddock all to fill the fishroom store

Cho
Young Mick Southwell was the bosun, old george Thompson engineer
Brian Baxter was a deckhand and he helped stow away the gear
As she fished across the oceans she sailed so wild and free
She was a great stern trawler; soon a legend of the sea

Cho
In the darkness of the winter in the terrible ice andstorms
Her crew worked hard to free her and to keep themselves from harm
As she fished across deep waters she did serve her owners well
Catching fish worth millions in the heavy rolling swell

Cho
Now Jacinta went on fishing 'til her engine let her down
We've towed her home to Fleetwood for to rest in her home town
We will paint her and we'll moor her all along her own quayside
She'll show new generations how we fished the seas with pride

Cho

Stu