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Thread #43100   Message #3750163
Posted By: RunrigFan
11-Nov-15 - 11:51 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Fishing Days (Campbell Gunn)
Subject: RE: A Great Song
Wrong lyrics

Rannoch which consisted of Campell Gunn & Heather O'Neill broke up in 1997 and I think over released 1 album


I can see the boats at Mallaig from Lewis and the Clyde
Low down in the water, to the harbour with the tide
I "can not sung* see 'The Horse' and Sammy from the
'Stormdrift' at the dawn
With a hundred cran of herring
But the fishing days are gone

chorus:

They ploughed the seas and they reaped the silver corn
There were hard days and bitter ways to greet the frosty morn
They ploughed the seas and they reaped the silver corn
They made, hard lives and bitter wives
But the fishing days are gone

As a boy I used to watch them, as they fished the Arran shore
On calm and peaceful summer nights and next day
home once more
But when winter winds were howling and the
world lay snug and warm
They were out there upon the ocean now the fishing days are gone

Repeat Chorus

Now the big ships sweep the seabed from Shetland down to Spain
The drifter and the ring net, we will never see again
The smoking sheds lie empty, the 'Stormdrift's'
days are done
The herring ships are over
And the fishing days are gone

Repeat Chorus