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the sheringham shantymen - make & break harbour lyrics

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[verse 1: lead]
how still lies the bay, in the light western air
which flows from the crimson horizon
once more we tack home, with a dry empty hold
saving gas, with the breezes so fair

[verse 2: all]
she’s a kindly cape islander old, but still sound
but so lost in the long+liner’s shadow
make and break, and make do, but the fish are so few
that she won’t be replaced, should she founder

[verse 3: all]
now it’s so hard to not think of before the big war
when the cod went so cheap but so plenty
foreign trawlers go by now, with long+seein’ eyes
takin’ all, where we seldom take any

[verse 4: all]
and the young folk don’t stay with the fisherman’s way
long ago, they all moved to the city
and the ones left behind, oh the tired and blind
won’t work for a pound, nor a penny

[chorus]
in make and break harbour the boats are so few
too many are pulled up and rotten
ghost towns who stand empty, old nets hung to dry
are blown away lost and forgotten
[verse 5: all]
now i can see the big draggers have stirred up the bay
leaving lobster pots smashed on the bottom
and they think it don’t pay, to respect the old ways
that make and break men have not forgotten

[verse 6: all]
for we still keep our time to the turn of the time
and this boat, that i built with my father
still lifts to the sky the one+lunger and i
still talk like old friends on the water

[chorus]
in make and break harbour the boats are so few
too many are pulled up and rotten
ghost towns who stand empty, old nets hung to dry
are blown away lost and forgotten

[chorus]
in make and break harbour the boats are so few
too many are pulled up and rotten
ghost towns who stand empty, old nets hung to dry
are blown away lost and forgotten

- the sheringham shantymen lyrics

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