O the Bonny Fisher Lad
Language: English
O the bonny fisher lad, that brings the fishes from the sea, O the bonny fisher lad, the fisher lad got hold of me. On Bamborough shire’s rocky shore. Just as you enter Boumer Row, There lives the bonny fisher lad, the fisher lad that beats them all. My mother sent me out one day to gather cockles from the sea, But I had not been long away when the fisher lad got hold of me A sailor I will never marry, nor soldier for he’s got no brass, But I will have a fisher lad, because I am a fisher lass.
Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Don Banks (1923 - 1980), "O the Bonny Fisher Lad", 1953 [ voice and piano or strings ], from Five North Country Folk Songs, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2023-10-03
Line count: 16
Word count: 102