The Shoals of Herring
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The Shoals of Herring
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"The Shoals of Herring" is a ballad, written by Ewan MacColl for the third of the original eight BBC Radio ballads Singing the Fishing, which was first broadcast on August 16, 1960.
Ewan MacColl writes that the song was based on the life of Sam Larner, a fisherman and traditional singer from Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk, England.
Liam Clancy, who performed the song for decades, tells a more nuanced story, saying that MacColl "tape recorded all the old fisherman up along the east coast of England. A
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