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Singing the fishing : a radio-ballad about Britain's herring fishing communities / by Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker and Peggy Seeger.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: TSCD 803 | Topic RecordsPublication details: Topic Records, 1999.Description: 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s):
Contents:
1. Up jumped the herring, the king of the sea -- 2. Come all you gallant fishermen -- 3. It's up with the dawn -- 4. Years ago, you started very young -- 5. I started to go to sea in 1892 -- 6. So it's off with a boiler full of steam -- 7. When the wind is freshening -- 8. What shall it profit a fisherman -- 9. It's busk ye, me lads, get you up on the deck -- 10. There's no feeling like coming into harbour -- 11. Came a'ye fisher lassies -- 12. Up jumped the herring -- 13. Cwa, ye herring fishermen -- 14. A' the week your man's away -- 15. Wi' our nets and gear -- 16. Our ships are small.

Compact disc.

First published by Argo in 1967. First broadcast on the BBC Home Service, 16/8/1960; produced by Parker, Charles.

Musical instruments: concertina, clarinet, alto saxophone; double-bass, fiddle, guitar, banjo, autoharp, mandolin.

1. Up jumped the herring, the king of the sea -- 2. Come all you gallant fishermen -- 3. It's up with the dawn -- 4. Years ago, you started very young -- 5. I started to go to sea in 1892 -- 6. So it's off with a boiler full of steam -- 7. When the wind is freshening -- 8. What shall it profit a fisherman -- 9. It's busk ye, me lads, get you up on the deck -- 10. There's no feeling like coming into harbour -- 11. Came a'ye fisher lassies -- 12. Up jumped the herring -- 13. Cwa, ye herring fishermen -- 14. A' the week your man's away -- 15. Wi' our nets and gear -- 16. Our ships are small.

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