《The Herring Girl》歌词

歌曲： The Herring Girl

所属专辑：Songs Lost & Stolen

歌手： Bella Hardy

时长： 04:14

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The Herring Girl - Bella Hardy[00:00:00]

All you who look down on me[00:00:24]

With that judgement in your eyes[00:00:26]

While the jury picks it's fate for me[00:00:30]

I'd have you save your sighs[00:00:33]

As a child with no family[00:00:36]

I was begging on the street[00:00:38]

When great fortune[00:00:41]

Came and made me a herring girl[00:00:43]

I don't come from these islands [00:00:48]

From England I have roamed[00:00:50]

And born in Great Yarmouth [00:00:53]

That is my native home[00:00:56]

In Autumn when the girls[00:00:59]

All chased the fish down from the north[00:01:01]

How I longed that I would[00:01:05]

One day be a herring girl[00:01:07]

A young girl down from Aberdeen[00:01:12]

Took sick and to her bed[00:01:14]

I asked if there was work[00:01:17]

And down to Rhona I was led[00:01:19]

Oh she smiled at the height of me [00:01:23]

And said that I would do[00:01:26]

And as a Packer I was joined[00:01:29]

To be a herring girl[00:01:32]

This season started up in Scotland [00:01:35]

I'd just turned sixteen[00:01:39]

And Rhona she's the greatest gutter[00:01:41]

Stornoway has seen[00:01:44]

At eighty fish a minute [00:01:47]

And with Mary not much less[00:01:50]

We three we're famed[00:01:53]

As the best crew of herring girls[00:01:55]

Last Saturday was dancing day [00:02:24]

And the boys were in the town[00:02:27]

We were packing up and cleaning up[00:02:30]

And heading for our room[00:02:33]

When a stranger crept behind us[00:02:35]

And an ally out the back[00:02:39]

Out to catch himself a couple[00:02:42]

Of fresh herring girls[00:02:45]

Oh so suddenly he's on us[00:02:48]

And he's knocked me to the ground[00:02:51]

And he's pinned our Rhona by the throat[00:02:54]

So she couldn't make a sound[00:02:57]

But from her apron pocket fell a knife[00:03:00]

So keen and sharp[00:03:04]

I've taught that man the price[00:03:06]

Of fishing for a herring girl[00:03:08]

All you who look down on me[00:03:16]

With that judgement in your eyes[00:03:18]

While the jury picks it's fate for me[00:03:21]

I'd have you save your sighs[00:03:25]

For I'd gladly do the same again[00:03:27]

To any man that tries[00:03:31]

Test his luck [00:03:33]

And take advantage of a herring girl[00:03:35]