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Oh it was a fine and a pleasant day  
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Out of Yarmouth harbor I was faring 
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As a cabin boy on a sailing lugger   
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For to hunt the bonny shoals of herring 

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Now you're up on deck, you're a fisherman 
        A/G#       A/F#    E   E/F#  E/G# 
You can swear and show a manly bearing  
           A     E   D                  F#m 
Take your turn and watch with the other fellas 
A                      D     E     A 
As you hunt the bonnie shoals of herring

         A             D    E      A 
Well I earned my keep and I paid my way 
        A/G#   A/F#    E   E/F#  E/G# 
And I earned the gear that I was wearing 
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I sailed a million mile, caught ten million fishes 
A                      D     E     A 
We were dreaming of the shoals of herring

A                           D  A 
Night and day the seas were daring 
     A       D                E 
Come wind oh come more winter gale 
A           D              A          D  E    F#m 
Sweating or cold, growing up, growing old, Or dying 
A                     D         E   A 
As we dream about the shoals of herring