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Rhymes of Northern Bards

by John Bell

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The Fisher Laddie

On Bamboroughshire’s rocky shore,
 Just as you enter Bowmer Raw,
There lives the bonny fisher lad,
 The fisher lad that bangs them a’.
   O the bonny fisher lad,
    That brings the fishes fra’ the sea;
   O the bonny fisher lad,
    The fisher lad gat had of me.

My mother sent me out one day,
 To gather cockles fra’ the sea;
But I had not been long away,
 When the fisher lad gat had of me.
   O the bonny, &c.

A sailor I will never marry,
 Nor soldier, for he’s got no brass;
But I will have a fisher lad
 Because I am a fisher’s lass.
   O the bonny, &c.

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