Get Up Early in the Morning

DESCRIPTION: "Get up early in the morning, Go and bait your trawl, You scarce had time to light your pipe, When over your dories go. And make three runs a day, No matter how hard she blows, And the devil is in the merchant, boys, He just keeps us alive."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1998 (Andersen, Voyage to the Grand Banks, according to Hallowell)
KEYWORDS: fishing hardtimes commerce
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: Gerald Hallowell, _The August Gales: The Tragic Loss of Fishing Schooners in the North Atlantic, 1926 and 1927_, Nimbus Publishing, 2013, pp. 147-148, "(Get Up Early in the Morning)" (1 text, quoted from Raoul Anderson, Voyage to the Grand Banks: The Saga of Captain Arch Thornhill, 1998)
File: AdGUEItM

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