“O the Bonny Fisher Lad”

Description

"O, the bonny fisher lad That brings the fishes frae the sea; O, the bonny fisher lad, The fisher lad gat haud o' me." The youth lives in Bamboroughshire; the singer met him while gathering cockles. She vows she will have the fisher lad

Supplemental text

O the Bonny Fisher Lad
  Complete text(s)

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From Stokoe/Reay, Songs and Ballads of Northern England, p. 103.

    O, the bonny fisher lad
      That brings the fishes frae the sea;
    O, the bonny fisher lad,
      The fisher lad gat haud o' me.

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, etc.

My mother sent me out one day
  To gather cockles frae the sea;
But I had not been lang away
  When my fisher lad fell in wi' me.
    O, the bonny fisher lad, etc.

A sailor I will never marry,
  Not soldier, for he's got ne brass;
But I will have a fisher lad,
  Because I am a fisher's lass.
    O, the bonny fisher lad, etc.

References

1. Stokoe/Reay, p. 103, "O the Bonny Fisher Lad" (1 text, 1 tune)
2. ST StoR103 (Full)
3. Roud #3150
4. BI, StoR103