{"id":1320,"date":"2013-11-19T08:32:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T12:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=1320"},"modified":"2013-11-23T11:16:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T15:16:07","slug":"three-jolly-fishermen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=1320","title":{"rendered":"Three Jolly Fishermen"},"content":{"rendered":"

I learned this great ditty from the singing of John Roberts with the group Ye Mariners All<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 From Roy Palmer in The Oxford Book of Sea Songs<\/b> <\/a>(1986), here’s a little history: “Steve\u00a0Gardham recorded this from Thomas Calvert of Runswick Bay, North Yorkshire, in 1971. \u00a0The song, which seems to have been a particular favourite in the Whitby area (though Cecil Sharp had a version from Middlesex, attached to a dance), was issued on a broadside printed in 1837-8 by W. and T. Fordyce, Newcastle, under the title of Caller Herring<\/i>. \u00a0This in turn loosely derives from a song of the same name by Lady Carolina Nairne (1766-1845), published in 1824 to a tune by Nathaniel Gow (1777-1831), based on ‘the original Cry of the Newhaven fish wives, Selling their fresh herrings in the streets of Edinburgh’. \u00a0Gow’s tune was issued as a shilling music sheet for piano in c.1802.”<\/p>\n

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[solo] We are three jolly fishermen
\n[all] We are three jolly fishermen<\/em><\/strong>
\n We are three jolly fishermen<\/em><\/strong>
\n While the merry, merry bells do ring<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

[solo] Make haste, make haste.
\n[all]You be too late<\/strong>.<\/em>
\n[solo] What fish, my dear.
\n[all] I cannot wait<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

For my fine fry of herring,<\/em><\/strong>
\n My bonny silver herring,<\/em><\/strong>
\n Mind how we sell them<\/em><\/strong>
\n While the merry, merry bells do ring.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

We cast our nets upon the rocks, &c.<\/p>\n

We bring them fresh to market, &c.<\/p>\n

There’s white and speckled bellied ‘uns, &c.<\/p>\n

We sell them three for fourpence, &c.<\/p>\n

We are three jolly fishermen, &c.<\/p>\n

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A buddy of ours – Salty Walt – and\u00a0his Rattlin’ Ratlines\u00a0performing this very song:<\/p>\n