Fisher Lad for Me, A

DESCRIPTION: "I was walking along the fish dock, I was going back to sea, When I heard a Scots girl singing... 'The day I get married, it's a fisher lad for me.'" He courts her. They marry. When they have children, the girl says, "It's a fisher lad for me."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1992 (Howson-SongsSunginSuffolk_
KEYWORDS: love courting children fishing
FOUND IN: Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Howson-SongsSunginSuffolk, #89, "A Fisher Lad for Me" (1 text)
NOTES [40 words]: I can't help but imagine that the Scots girl who comes to England (Yarmouth) to gut the herring and marry a Fisher lad is one of the girls in Ewan MacColl's "Come All Ye Fisher Lassies." Silly, of course, but the songs truly do dovetail. - RBW
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File: Hows089

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