The Collected Songs of Charles Mackay With Illustrations by John Gilbert |
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THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE. |
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THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE.
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What joy attends the fisher's life!Blow, winds, blow!
The fisher and his faithful wife.
Row, boys, row!
He drives no plough on stubborn land,
His fields are ready to his hand;
No nipping frosts his orchards fear,
He has his Autumn all the year.
Yeo! Heave! Ho!
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The husbandman has rent to pay.Blow, winds, blow!
And seed to purchase every day.
Row, boys, row!
But he who farms the rolling deeps,
Though never sowing, always reaps;
The ocean-fields are fair and free,
There are no rent-days on the sea.
Yeo! Heave! Ho!
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Then joy attend the fisher's life!Blow, winds, blow!
The fisher and his faithful wife.
Row, boys, row!
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His teeming harvests never fail!
And from his cottage on the strand
Come forth defenders of our land.
Yeo! Heave! Ho!
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