(The Bonnie) Shoals of Herring The Dubliners

With our nets and gear we're faring
On the wild and wasteful ocean
It's out there on the deep we harvest and reap
Our bread
As we hunt the bonnie shoals of herring

O, it was a fine and a pleasant day
Out of Yarmouth harbour I was faring
As a cabin boy on a sailing lugger
We were following the shoals of herring

Now you're up on deck, you're a fisherman
You can swear and show a manly bearing
Take your turn and watch with the other fellas
As you're hunting for the shoals of herring

Now we fished the Swarth and the Broken Bank
I was cook and I'd a quarter-sharing
And I used to sleep standing on me feet
As we hunted for the shoals of herring

We left the home grounds in the month of June
And for canny Shields we soon were bearing
With a hundred cran of the silver darlings
That we'd taken from the shoals of herring