My YT Algo's just brought up this version, featuring those hard-working herrin' lassies!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4lJbTBvSsY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4lJbTBvSsY
"A Fishwife's Response to The Wellerman Sea Shanty"

**A few of you have taken an interest in the history of the fishwives in the comments below, so here's a link to a National Library of Scotland page which gives a bit more info (and which provided us with inspiration for the lyrics!):
https://scotlands-sounds.nls.uk/index...?    
The 5th paragraph describes how the whole community - men and women - relied upon each other for income. Hyped that this video is making people curious to learn more!**


When you were sleepin' on your pillows,
Dream'd you aught of our poor fellows,
Darkling as they faced the billows,
To fill the willows wove?

Who'll buy our hard-won stock?
We walked on river and hill and rock,
To the market from the dock,
We haul'd through wind and snow.

Who'll buy our hard-won stock?
We walked on river and hill and rock,
To the market from the dock,
We haul'd through wind and snow.

I was not but six stone four,
And on my back was eight stone more,
My hands were numb, my feet were sore,
It never made us slow.

Who'll buy our hard-won stock?
We walked on river and hill and rock,
To the market from the dock,
We haul'd through wind and snow.

On the street with creels and cases,
Ladies, clad in silks and laces,
Gather in their braw pelisses,
Cast their heads and go.

Who'll buy our hard-won stock?
We walked on river and hill and rock,
To the market from the dock,
We haul'd through wind and snow.


Cheers, R-J