Oary Dory


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Oary Dory get your dory; there are herring in the bay
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Oary Dory get your dory; there are herring in the bay
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For the herring are like silver shining in the sea
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And all that shining silver is there for you and me

Oary Dory get your dory; there are herring in the bay
Oary Dory get your dory, for the herring swim away
For the herring like the white gull want to live and not to die
And the herring like the white gull have wings on which to fly

Oary Dory got his dory and he went down to the bay
Oary Dory got his dory but the fish had gone away
For there was oil upon the water and tankers at the docks
And the herring and the white gull lay dead upon the rocks

Oary Dory sell your dory; get a job a-pumping oil
Oary Dory sell your dory, and forget this life of toil
For the herring and the white gull they do not riches bring
No the herring and the white gull they do not mean a thing

Oary Dory got his dory and he went out on the bay
Oary Dory got his dory, didn’t know just what to say
But out on that shining water, he knew deep in his soul
He needed that clean water with its fish and herring gull