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Three score and ten
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Dit lied is een ‘In Memoriam’ voor 70 vissers uit Grimsby aan de
Humber, die in een vreselijke storm in 1889 hun leven verloren. Het
is geschreven door een van de bemanningsleden die
toevalligerwijs die nacht niet mee aan boord was. Een score
betekent 20, dus ‘3 score and ten’ zijn dus 70 mannen verdronken,
allen uit Grimsby….
Refrein:
And it's three score and ten
Boys and men [wur] lost from Grimsby Town
From Yarmouth town to Scarborough
Many hundreds more [wur] drowned
Their herring craft, their trawlers
Their fishing smacks as well
They long to fight the bitter night
And battle with the swell
Me thinks I see a host of craft
Spreading there sails alee
As down the Humber they do glide
Down to the Northern Sea
Me thinks I see on each small craft
A crew with a heart so brave
They go to earn their daily bread
Upon the restless wave.
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Me thinks I see them yet again
As they leave this land behind
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Three score and ten
Casting their nets into the sea
The herring shoals to find
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Three score and ten
Me thinks I see them yet again
And they stay on board all night
With the decks swept clean
The sails close reefed
And the sidelights burning bright.
Refrein:
Me thinks I heard the skipper cry
It's time to shorten sail
For the glass is falling rapidly
And it soon will blow full gale
There was many a heart of sorrow
And many a heart of pain
And many a lusty fisher lad
Would never sail again.
Refrein:
October night was such a sight
As never seen before
There were masts and yards
And broken spars
Come drifting to the shore
There was many a heart of sorrow
There was many a heart so brave
There was many a hearty fisher lad
That met a watery grave.
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Refrein: 2x
Three score and ten
2e refrein neurieën, solist noemt de namen >
zie volgende bladzijde.
Albert Tuplin
Herbert Goodhand
Cyril Cox
Peter Atkinson
Sid Bonner
Bob Blanchard
Ernest Dobb
Harold Tailor
Walter Little
Harry Goodwin
Pat Yarse
Davey Singleton
James Tailor
Tawn Hall
Jim Smith
Tom Betts
Fred Pichbeck
Bill Andcoo
Ron Mumby
Frank Sleight
George Topp
Arthur Crab
Jo Bloggs
Richard Keene
And all the other sailors that drowned in the
North Sea in that horrible night in 1889.
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