The Three Fishers - Hullah, John

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◈ Genre → Folksongs ♬ Voicing → S ¶ Language → English

Parts 1

Instruments Piano

Pages 4

CPDL # 6920

Editor Stan Sanderson

Posted 2004-04-08

License Public Domain

¶Lyrics / 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.