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rape of the mackerel shoals - the stowes lyrics

[verse 1]
if you were ever in the ports of newlyn
falmouth or mevagissey, looe
st. ives or padstow or porthleven
there’s fishermen with nothing left to do
the mackerel that teemed ’round our waters
the harvest it was regular and true
sufficient was to feed our sons and daughters
our little boats could work the season through

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[verse 1]
if you were ever in the ports of newlyn
falmouth or mevagissey, looe
st. ives or padstow or porthlevеn
there’s fishermеn with nothing left to do
the mackerel that teemed ’round our waters
the harvest it was regular and true
sufficient was to feed our sons and daughters
our little boats could work the season through

[chorus]
you shoot your nets on either hand
and bait your lines with caviar
you might as well remain on land, boys
there’s no more fish out where you are
[verse 2]
the giants came from russia and from scotland
bulgaria and france and everywhere
they scooped the very bread from off our hands, boys
there’s nothing that these pirates have to fear
the seas that tumble ’round our homeland
for many thousand years have served us well
why should we now be so beset by brigands
who legally are sending us to h*ll?

[chorus]
you shoot your nets on either hand
and bait your lines with caviar
you might as well remain on land, boys
there’s no more fish out where you are

[instrumental break]

[chorus]
you shoot your nets on either hand
and bait your lines with caviar
you might as well remain on land, boys
there’s no more fish out where you are

[verse 3]
’tis proper job to haul the mackerel in, boys
although your hands are bleeding sore
but nowadays you get it in a tin, lads
so why go fishing anymore?
come on, there’s only guts in fishes
what happened to the nerve we had before?
our cornish hearts don’t vainly beat on wishes
but fight and ask for what you know is yours
[chorus]
you shoot your nets on either hand
and bait your lines with caviar
you might as well remain on land, boys
there’s no more fish out where you are

[chorus]
you shoot your nets on either hand
and bait your lines with caviar
you might as well remain on land, boys
there’s no more fish out where you are
you might as well remain on land, boys
there’s no more fish out where you are

you might as well remain on land, boys
there’s no more fish out where you are

[instrumental]

- the stowes lyrics

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