A song here from the pen
of Archie Fisher, one of Scotland's finest singer songwriters. It
doesn't seem so long ago that songs were being written in praise of the
amounts of fish being caught. Now, a sign of the times, a song
lamenting the scrapping of a fishing vessel, an all too common occurrence
these days as the fishing industry becomes more and more difficult to
sustain.
Archie has written a few heave-away type lines for this song, so please
try not to get too seasick during it all. If you do, just remember
that we Celts are the greatest inventors of seasickness cures in the
world. In Scotland, you simply hang over the side of the ship with a
coin between your teeth. In Ireland you sit under a tree. |