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The Silver Darlings by Meg Lewer

Just watched season 8 of Shetland and thinking about the Herring industry which was so important to those Northern Parts last century. Such a hard life in the little stone crofts……cold and bleak.
This is a song about ‘The Silver Darlings” set to music by Jim McClean in the ’70’s.

“Oh, herrings are harvests that fishermen glean,
Where flashes the silver through deep oceans green,
And when herring harvests reach old Aberdeen,
They’re known as the silver darlings….

Silver darlings on Aberdeen quay,
Brought by the fishermen home from the sea
To the city that stands ‘twixt the Don and the Dee,
The home of the Silver Darlings…..

The boats leave the harbour their wakes spreading wide,
And empty they roll with the swell of the tide.
Oh soon may their hatches be thrown open wide
With a catch of the silver darlings…..

With ice on the rigging and death down below,
The gales screaming wild and the glass hanging low,
The wives and the sweethearts are women who know
The price of the silver darlings.”

Certificate of authenticity and poem are included.

The Silver Darlings

Meg Lewer

Original price was: AUD$1,630.Current price is: AUD$1,467.
Size: 50w x 70h x 3d cms
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Tasmanian oak, Shadow box frame

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The Silver Darlings by Meg Lewer

Just watched season 8 of Shetland and thinking about the Herring industry which was so important to those Northern Parts last century. Such a hard life in the little stone crofts……cold and bleak.
This is a song about ‘The Silver Darlings” set to music by Jim McClean in the ’70’s.

“Oh, herrings are harvests that fishermen glean,
Where flashes the silver through deep oceans green,
And when herring harvests reach old Aberdeen,
They’re known as the silver darlings….

Silver darlings on Aberdeen quay,
Brought by the fishermen home from the sea
To the city that stands ‘twixt the Don and the Dee,
The home of the Silver Darlings…..

The boats leave the harbour their wakes spreading wide,
And empty they roll with the swell of the tide.
Oh soon may their hatches be thrown open wide
With a catch of the silver darlings…..

With ice on the rigging and death down below,
The gales screaming wild and the glass hanging low,
The wives and the sweethearts are women who know
The price of the silver darlings.”

Certificate of authenticity and poem are included.

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