Three Fishers, The (John Hullah)

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Editor: Stan Sanderson (added 2004-04-08).   Score information: 4 pages   Copyright: Public Domain

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Title: Three Fishers, The
Composer: John Hullah

Number of voices: 1v  Voicing: S
Genre: Secular, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano
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Original text and translations

English text

Three fishers went sailing out into the west,

Out into the west as the sun went down;

Each thought on the woman who lov'd him best,

And the children stood watching them out of the town,

For men must work and women must weep

And ther's little to earn, and many to keep;

To the harbor bar be moaning.

Three wives sat up in the lighthouse tow'r

And they trimm'd the lamps as the sun went down

They look'd at the squall, and they look'd at the show'r,

And the night rack came rolling up ragged and brown!

But men must work and women must weep.

Though storms be sudden, and waters deep,

And the harbor bar be moaning.

Three corpses lay on the shining sands

In the morning gleam as the tide went down

And the women are weeping and wringing their hands

For those who will never come back to the town,

And the sooner it's over the sooner to sleep,

And goodbye to the bar and it's moaning.