Shoals Of Herring - Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
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- SHOALS OF HERRING
Oh, it was a fine and a pleasant day,
Out of Yarmouth harbor I was farin'
As a cabin boy on a sailin' lugger,
For to go and hunt the shoals of herring.
Oh, the work was hard and the hours were long,
And the treatment, sure, it took some bearin'
There was little kindness and the kicks were many,
As we hunted for the shoals of herring.
Oh, we fished the Swarthe and the Broken Bank,
I was cook and I'd a quarter sharin'
And I used to sleep standin' on my feet,
And I'd dream about the shoals of herring.
Oh, we left the home grounds in the month of June,
And to canny Shields we soon was bearin'
With a hundred cran of the silver darlins
That we'd taken from the shoals of herring.
Now you're up on deck, you're a fisherman,
You can swear and show a manly bearin'
Take your turn on watch with the other fellows,
While you're searchin' for the shoals of herring.
In the stormy seas and livin' gales,
Just to earn your daily bread you're darin'
From the Dover Straits to the Faroe Islands
As you're following the shoals of herring.
Well, I earned me keep and I paid me way,
And I earned the gear what I was wearin'
Sailed a million miles, caught ten million fishes,
We were sailin' after shoals of herring. - Hudba
Introduced to Clancy brothers by a boyfriend fresh from a year overseas, and we were at Wits University together. That was 1970. Never thought I'd get as old as l am now, 73. We had a great life back then. Wonderful music. Thanks for the memories.
In the early to mid 90s, Paddy, Liam and Bobby Clancy, with nephew Robbie O'Connell, were regulars at the L.A. Irish Festival. I would go every year and they were always willing to do a request or two. Each year I would ask for this song and they would always oblige. They were all fine gentlemen, the Clancy Brothers. Also got to meet Tommy Makem there one year. Never got to hear them when Tom Clancy was still alive, sadly. Thankfully, Robbie is still with us to keep the music and memories alive, as are his Clancy cousins, Aoife and Donal.
They were a passionate group of musicians. So was the composer, Ewan MacColl.
I fell in love with the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem 63 years ago at the age of ten. They were on a public television station, WTTW in Chicago. I missed most of rock for the next few decades following the group. I saw them many times in concert and in parade when they would come to Chicago for St. Paddy's Day. I had everyone of their American-released albums and saw Tommy Makem in the crowds at the Irishfest in the Evergreen Park area.I still miss them but treasure my many memories of them and their music. It still lives.
There is no enjoyment like.listening to.the.Clancy Brothers
I was blessed enough to have been raised on these songs. For that, I thank my parents.
My brother and I used to sing this song to the family as young lads, I pretended to be Liam and my brother was Tommy, where did we go wrong? maybe it was voices!
Rest in peace lads
I was 21 years at sea, and I still think this is one of the best shanties of all (although I'd rather hear it in a warm pub these days than out on the wild and western ocean.)
A truly resonant version of this superb song.
It's the best
These boys were massive in America. Bob Dylan fell in love with them.
You can almost feel the spray and smell the salty air when they sing about seafaring. Rest in peace lads!
I remember the first time I heard this in a bar in Lerwick Shetland when I was a trawlerman 40 odd years ago brings back found memories n real hard graft, brillliant
My mum’s song. She listened to this every day for the last year of her life. Now I play it at her grave.☘️🙏🏻 Clancy brothers sing it the best.
Atlantic Ocean , nothing better.
GohuntachAirFad
I’m here now in Cromer on the North Sea… my heritage is the Atlantic Galway, and I see the fishermen every day and the changing seas and to me it is completely HOME in the feelings
My dad's song too.
Good song, good memories
@@shelleynielsen199 ❤️
Love these big strong MEN ,ALWAYS!
Can't beat the Clancy's and Tommy! The very best
A real swagger with an undertone of pathos. Great song. Growing up, growing old, or dying.
My father loved this song and boy could he ever sing it ..still miss u old Rab .
Great version 👌RIP lads
This is a perfect example of a perfect song. It is folk music defined. A song with a range of emotion. It can be melodic, it can rock, it is just a perfect song.
VERY well said, perfectly said.
I went to school in Yarmouth, Grandma's family were shrimpers and sailors, and my dad loved the Clancy brothers so I have to love this one!
Written by one of my folk heroes.......Euan MacColl
What a beautiful voice liam clancy had, I miss you and your brother's so much
Miss Luke Kelly too
Dermot Mahon Bob Dylan referred to him as "the greatest ballad singer ever." I had the pleasure of seeing Liam perform with Tommy Makem live about a handful of times with my parents while I was growing up. Memories I will always cherish as all parties are gone now.
@@seamusin1697 my dad took me to see the Clancy brothers at the Albert hall in the late 60s
Great memories
Oh by the way we had our Aaron sweaters on
Possibly my favorite thing of all time.
First heard it 40 years ago and it is still magical.... no one presents it as the Clancies and Tommy do
I loved this song the first time I heard it and still do. Great song, great group.
Tommy Makem's voice marvels through always. What power!
I just love this fabulous folk song, I heard it many years ago, and delighted to hear it again folk singing at it's best! Thank you so much.
Fantastic. My dad loved this song.
It's an English folk song created by Euan McColl and these Irish lads, along with the Chieftans, do him proud. Same bloke wrote Dirty Old Town, which is about Salford in Manchester, not Dublin. He also wrote First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.
You had to ruin it. Was enjoying the song then u mentioned the English 😢.
what a joy to sit and listen and feel the music flow through all parts of my soul.
Lovely - one of my very favourites of theirs. Thanks for posting!
love it and feel very lucky to have had this music from these special people in my life
Holy goosebumps. Absolutely lovely.
Just BRILLIANT!.....a masterpiece!!
That was fantastic.
My favorite Clancy Brother's recording
Kaitipoo g
Ahhhh I remember the good ole days in Youghal, Co. Cork, always as my Family Irish, we went there for Holidays, Hows different were the pubs them, back in the 60's, after hours, you would have a look out for the "Garda" and inside all good Irish songs, happy happy times, just love the music :-) :-)
I first heard this song forty years ago living in Fulford Rd, York, while at the University. Still play it, still love it.
Brilliant by one of the best balladeer Liam Clancy who lived in Ring ,Co.Phortlairghe.
A powerful song for us landlubbers to sense life on the seas. Middle Tickle from Newfoundland does this song justice, too.
+John Coleman As do the corries.
Greetings from the South Seas!
Liam RIP I'll miss you to bits you were only the best singer of slow ballads
My favorite version of this great song. I used to listen to this over and over and over...
Rest in peace, our seamen friends.
I’ve been a fan of the Clancy’s and Makem since I first saw them in Greenwich Village in the 60’s...this is one of their great songs which sounds as good as it did when I first heard it more than 50 years ago.
Ah john. Marino. Not
Been there and worked at the drift net for herring in the 60s, great shanty
I will miss both Ewan MacColl wro wrote the song and Liam who so loved to sing it.
Love these guys.
It does not get any better than this does it?
Brilliantly sung
Great song
Gran worked at Yarmouth
luke kelly, the corries and the clancy bros, all sing this well and i love the three recordings. luke just takes the edge. r.i.p. all of you
Pig sick of people giving Luke Kelly all the accolades ... Good he certainly was ... but others stand higher than him ..
I will miss both Ewan MacColl who wrote the song and Liam who so loved to sing it.
music that in te future will be buried in time-excellent piece
..for all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad
And, of course, Ewan McColl, who wrote this song, sings a worthy rendition of his creation. A fitting tribute to a long gone fishing industry whoever sings the song.
Every folk song that ever there was, was composed by somebody at some point in time. My dad was a folk singer, knew Ewan McColl and all those people back in the 60s when he founded the first folk club in Coventry.
@sandinmyears1. No Great Yarmouth in Norfork. The Scottish Herring boats used to follow the Silver Darlin's down the Eastern seaboard of the UK whilst their fishergirls would follow overland to gut & pack them into barrels
This is one of my favorite songs. Written by Ewan McColl.
i miss them all.but i live on with there music...
zeldzaam mooi!!!!!!!
LIAM TOMMY PADDY AND TOM ..IONTACH
Sad ,looking at the comments and the length of time between comments, the memory of these grand singers all of whose songs I know by heart, is fading, soon they will be forgotten by the young people who think that RAPPIN is music
this is one of the most beautiful songs i have ever heard. not get too ethnic, but you always want Irish and Chinese in a tough situation on a winning team with what we have now. look at the railroads here in the States..the Star Fleet folks figured this out years ago :)
... such a shame then that is an English song written by an English man about the English North Sea herring fishermen
Fabulous
😀🚜👍
Great ass song to drink to.........by yerself.............no shits given
This version is great.... but Luke Kelly's is absolutely sensational.
Had Tommy boy ever been on a fishin boat? Doesn't really matter does it.
Luke kelly also does a brilliant rendition of this track
My favorite version for sure.
the lyrics r all mixed up!!!!!!!!1
William Shatner + William Clancy ;D no coincidence
Lyrics didn't match........
CelticMountainDigs they're taken from Louis Killen version, I think
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The lyrics don't match.....
+Michael Floyd these are the lyrics from Ewan McColls original version
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hampibaba1 thanks!
It’s an old recording, just enjoy the music
Me and my dad loved this
We loved Liam but I thought the ĺuke Kelly was better
For the forgoton 34 thumbs down . get a life . drink is your curse
Is it just me or could Shatner and Liam be cousins?
Dreadful . B
Love it