Luyện nghe bài hát The Shoals of Herring

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1. o, it was a and a plea - sant day
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Out of yar - har-bour I was far - ing
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As a cab - in boy on a - ing lug - ger
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For to go and hunt the of her - ring

2. o, the was hard and the hours were long
And the treatment, sure, it took bearing,
There was little kindness and the kicks were
As we hunted for the shoals of

3. o, we finished the swarth and the bank
I was and I'd a quarter-sharing
And I used to sleep, on my feet
And I'd dream the shaols of herring

4. o, we left the home grounds in the month of
And to canny shiels we were bearing
With a hundred cran of the darlings
we'd taken from the shoals of herring

5. now your up on deck, a fisherman
You can swear and show a bearing
your turn on watch with the other fellows
While searching for the shoals of herring

6. in the seas and the living gales
to earn your daily bread your daring
From the dover straits to the islands,
As your following the of herring

7. o, I earned me keep and I me way
And I the gear I was wearing
Sailed a million miles, caught ten million
We were sailing shoals of herring

(the original radio version had a first verse which has a
different melody it goes as follows)

4/4

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With our nets and gear far - ing
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On the wild and waste - ful o -
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there on the deep that we (6/4 time) har - vest
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And our bread as hunt the bon - ny shoals of her -
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