
Date of issue: 31.07.2013
Record label: Cleopatra, Wildflower
Song language: English
Fisherman's Song |
The fisherman are pitching pennies in the sand beside the sea |
And the sunrise hits their oilskin boots, their painted boats and me |
And they seem to know the ocean like a man knows a woman |
She makes him wait around for half the morning for the tide to turn |
Pull on the ropes, seine haul fisherman |
Never catches more than he knows he can sell in a day |
Pull in the nets, seine haul fisherman |
Day’s for work, night’s the time to go dancing |
They’re drinking beer and laughing and squinting at the sun |
Waiting for the gulls to tell them when the fish will come |
Their faces brown and weathered from all the nets they’ve run |
They’ve learned to wait, they always know that the tide will turn |
Pull on the ropes, seine haul fisherman |
Never catches more than he knows he can sell in a day |
Pull in the nets, seine haul fisherman |
Day’s for work, night’s the time to go dancing |
Now way out on the ocean the big ships hunt for whales |
And the Japanese have caught so many now they hunt for snails |
But my fisherman’s not greedy he seems content to live |
With the sun and the sand and a net full of fishes when the tide turns |
Pull on the ropes, seine haul fisherman |
Never catches more than he knows he can sell in a day |
Pull in the nets, seine haul fisherman |
Day’s for work, night’s the time to go dancing |
Oh, yes pull on the ropes, seine haul fisherman |
Never catches more than he knows he can sell in a day |
Oh, and pull in the nets, seine haul fisherman |
Day’s for work, night’s the time to go dancing |
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