North Sea Shoals - The Corries

Come all you gallant fishermen that plough the stormy sea,

The whole year round on the fishing grounds

On the Northern Minch and the Norway Deeps,

On the banks and knolls of the North Sea Holes

Where the herring shoals are found.

It’s there you’ll find the Norfolk boys and the lads from Peterhead,

There’s Buckie chiels and men from Shields,

On the Northern Minch and the Norway Deeps,

On the banks and knolls of the North Sea Holes

Where the herring shoals are found.

From Fraserborough and Aberdeen, from Whitby, Yarmouth Town,

The fleet’s away at the break of day

To the Northern Minch and the Norway Deeps,

To the banks and knolls of the North Sea Holes

Where the herring shoals are found.

It’s off with a boiler full of steam and your engine spic and span

To fish the grounds the North Sea round

And fish and knolls and the North Sea Holes

And try your luck at the North Shields Gut

With a catch of a hundred cran.

No need to wait for the wind and tide, you’re the master of the sea,

Come calm or squall, just shoot and haul

And fill the hold with the fish to be sold

And steam ahead for the curing shed

And the buyers on the Yarmouth quay.

Come all you gallant fishermen that plough the stormy sea,

The whole year round on the fishing grounds

On the Northern Minch and the Norway Deeps,

On the banks and knolls of the North Sea Holes

Where the herring shoals are found.