Net Hauling Song Songtext

von Mac Coll

Net Hauling Song

It's muscle me boy's get you up on the deck
And take up your stations for hauling the nets
And mind up all together lads's all through the night
And shaking your oilskins until it's daylight
With a heave and a haul and a shaking of net's

It's when we're at hauling we living on hope
The boy in the locker the lad's on the ropes
The fellows in the hold to our hauling the net's
And shaking the herring out on to the deck
With a heave and a haul and the shaking of net's

It's net after net we pull up from the sea
With a haul and a shake and a one, two and three
The herring are repelling around our sea boots
And sliddering and sliding down into the shoots
With the heave and the haul and the shaking of net's

It's hour after hour we are hauling away
All through the long night till the dawn of the day
The captain is in the wheelhouse he's on the orthy
And the cook's and the galley are brewing the tea
And we're heaving and hauling and shaking of net's

Now the season is over so be on your way
And head for the homeport to sign for your pay
Your misses will be waiting to welcome you home
It's so hard for a wife to be so much alone
And you're finished with heaving and hauling of nets