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Lyrics for Grimsby Lads by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Grimsby Lads | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 318 | | | | Lyrics: | Grimsby Lads
Here's to the Grimsby lads out at the trawling
Here's to the lads
on the billowing deep
Shooting their nets and heaving and hauling
All the night long,
and the landsmen asleep.
They sail in the cold and the grey of the morning,
Leaving
their wives and their families behind;
Following the fishing, fulfilling their
calling,
Their charts are all ready the shoals for to find.
Away to the north where
they know will be waiting
Frost and black ice and the lash of the gale,
Trawling and
hoping and anticipating
A ship bumper-full and safe homeward to sail.
From
Scotland's grey shore to the cold coast of Iceland
Through White Sea and Faeroe they're working
their way,
Through Dogger and Forties to stormy Bear Island:
Eighteen long hours is the
fisherman's day.
The nets are inboard and the catch lies a-gleaming;
There's gutting
and washing and packing below.
Ten days of fishing and home they'll be steaming:
A
thousand miles gone and a thousand to go.
On Humber's brown water the new sun is
gleaming;
To the fisherman's prayer the breeze sings the amen.
The smoky grey town in the
stillness is dreaming;
Her sons from the waters return once again.
@sailor
@England
from Palmer, Oxford Book of Sea Songs
sung by Cliff Haslam
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