The Fisherman's Wife
(Finley Mullally)
From the 1993 Gowan Brae recording
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I am an old woman now I remember Queen Victoria At her word the nations took to war and put their boats to sea And she was one of few and my stories such a simple one I fear it's much too modest for these 1970's I was a fisherman's child and when I still was very young I wed a man whose fishing boats oars went shining in the sun And I've cursed the Sea and I've raged against the angry tide to bring that boat home safe again with himself still inside Chorus And I've seen Jesus -- on the water He was calling out my name And I've seen Jesus -- on the water He was calling out my name and I was frightened and I faltered, but when he called, I came I birthed a brood of kids and raised them on my blood and will I taught them to run screaming I taught them to stand still and my girls moved on and my boys went to the sea and yet I wove their lives around me with these hands that weave the net Chorus One day my man washed up and me pray'n for him all the time They brought him to me full of scales his hair was full of brine And my two young boys soon after pulling at the oars were lost upon the ocean and me raging at the shore And I've been fishing, on the ocean till my life's one fishing net and I've been out there, on the black sea and some nights...I'm still there yet |
from the singing memories of
Margo Carruthers
& Ardyth Robinson and Jennifer Wyatt
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