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The Herring Girl - Bella Hardy
All you who look down on me
With that judgement in your eyes
While the jury picks it's fate for me
I'd have you save your sighs
As a child with no family
I was begging on the street
When great fortune
Came and made me a herring girl
I don't come from these islands
From England I have roamed
And born in Great Yarmouth
That is my native home
In Autumn when the girls
All chased the fish down from the north
How I longed that I would
One day be a herring girl
A young girl down from Aberdeen
Took sick and to her bed
I asked if there was work
And down to Rhona I was led
Oh she smiled at the height of me
And said that I would do
And as a Packer I was joined
To be a herring girl
This season started up in Scotland
I'd just turned sixteen
And Rhona she's the greatest gutter
Stornoway has seen
At eighty fish a minute
And with Mary not much less
We three we're famed
As the best crew of herring girls
Last Saturday was dancing day
And the boys were in the town
We were packing up and cleaning up
And heading for our room
When a stranger crept behind us
And an ally out the back
Out to catch himself a couple
Of fresh herring girls
Oh so suddenly he's on us
And he's knocked me to the ground
And he's pinned our Rhona by the throat
So she couldn't make a sound
But from her apron pocket fell a knife
So keen and sharp
I've taught that man the price
Of fishing for a herring girl
All you who look down on me
With that judgement in your eyes
While the jury picks it's fate for me
I'd have you save your sighs
For I'd gladly do the same again
To any man that tries
Test his luck
And take advantage of a herring girl
