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janice burns & jon doran - song of the fishgutters lyrics

come all you fisher lassies, ay, it’s come awa with me
fae cairnbulg and gamrie and fae inverallochie
frae buckie and frae aberdeen an’ all the country roond
we’re awa to gut the herring, we’re awa tae yarmouth toon

rise up in the morning wi your bundles in your hand
be at the station early or you’ll surely have to stand
tak plenty to eat and a kettle for your tea
or you’ll maybe die of hunger on the way to yarmouth quay

the journey it’s a lang yen and it taks a day or twa
and when you reach your lodging, sure it’s soon asleep you’ll fa’
but you’ll rise at five with the sleep still in your e’en
you’re awak to find the gutting yards along the yarmouth quay

it’s early in the morning and it’s late into the night
your hands are cut and chappit and they look a nasty sight
and you greet like a ween when you put ’em in the bree
and you wish you were a thousand mile away from yarmouth quay

there’s coopers, there are curers there and buyers, canny chiels
lassies at the pickle and others at the creels
and you’ll wish the fish had been all left in the sea
by the time you finish guttin’ herring on the yarmouth quay

we’ve gutted fish in lerwick and in stornaway and shields
worked all on the humber ’mongst the barrels and the creels
whitby, grimsby, we’ve traveled up and doon
but the place to see the herring is the quay at yarmouth toon
come all you fisher lassies, ay, it’s come awa with me
fae cairnbulg and gamrie and fae inverallochie
frae buckie and frae aberdeen an’ all the country roond
we’re awa to gut the herring, we’re awa tae yarmouth toon

- janice burns jon doran lyrics

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