Final Trawl, The

DESCRIPTION: "It's three long years since we made her pay"; with fishing poor and subsidies low, the fishermen can't make a living. The ship is making her last trawl. The owner will beach her on a skerry rather than let her be broken up.
AUTHOR: Archie Fisher
EARLIEST DATE: 1979 (date of composition, according to Palmer-OxfordBookOfSeaSongs, and recordings began to appear very soon after)
KEYWORDS: fishing hardtimes wreck ship
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Palmer-OxfordBookOfSeaSongs 159, "The Final Trawl" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, FINTRAWL*
File: PaSe159

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