Swell My Net Full

DESCRIPTION: "Out on the ocean, dreary and cold, I lead the life of a fisherman bold. So swell me net full...." The singer lists a fish for each weekday, and describes how to deal with weather. When he dies, "Build me a tombstone of herring back scales."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1986 (Palmer-OxfordBookOfSeaSongs), but recorded no later than 1982
KEYWORDS: fishing nonballad food storm work
FOUND IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Palmer-OxfordBookOfSeaSongs 145, "Swell my Net Full" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #16874
File: PaSe145

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