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Thread #123012   Message #2708193
Posted By: Tattie Bogle
25-Aug-09 - 11:42 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Farewell tae the Haven (Davy Steele)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Farewell tae the Haven
Hi Jim, you've still got "yard" and not "land".
So, here it is - direct from Davy's recording (he doesn't always drop the g off words like cursin' (cursing) but I've left that alone.
And I've put all the choruses in adn repeated first verse, as he did them.

FAREWELL TAE THE HAVEN                        Davy Steele

I'm leaving the fishin', the life I have known,
The battle with nature that nobody's won,
The fish stocks are dwindlin' and the shoals hard tae find.
I'm leaving the fishin'. I've made up my mind.

Farewell tae the Haven. Ma hert it is sad.
The drifters I'm leavin' tae work on the land.

Ma faither worked drifters, and ma grandfaither tae.
Ma brother's a skipper on the Elena Mae,
I've worked at the fishin', just as soon as I could,
So leavin's no easy. The sea's in my blood.

Farewell tae the Haven. Ma hert it is sad.
The drifters I'm leavin' tae work on the land.

I'll miss the wee boats though. Ma thoughts are there yet
Wi' the lads on the Jeannie, haulin' the nets.
We worked hard together, and we laughed hard as well,
Cursin' the weather and ridin' the swell.

Farewell tae the Haven. Ma hert it is sad.
The drifters I'm leavin' tae work on the land.

I'll work in the wire mill. It's a good job, they say.
I'll start and I'll finish the same time every day.
The money is constant, and my wife she seems pleased,
But I'll miss the fishin', and I'll miss the sea.

Farewell tae the Haven. Ma hert it is sad.
The drifters I'm leavin' tae work on the land.

I'm leaving the fishin', the life I have known,
The battle with nature that nobody's won,
For the fish stocks are dwindlin' and the shoals hard tae find.
I'm leaving the fishin'. I've made up my mind.

Farewell tae the Haven. Ma hert it is sad. (a capella these 2 lines)
The drifters I'm leavin' tae work on the land.
Farewell tae the Haven. Ma hert it is sad.
The drifters I'm leavin' tae work on the land.