Last of the Hunters

Here's the health to the fishermen who plough the lonely sea
 The battle with the ocean where it's in their blood to be
 Deer the foodful bounty of the blind and savage fall
 They are the last of the hunters, and they're proudly sailing home
 Away to the fishing ground against a flooding tide
 The hunters of wild, now the last in our time
 Through living gale and storm, they sail the crystal sea they row
 They're the heart of every harbour when the boats come sailing home
 Sailing home, sailing home
 The last of the hunters sailing home
 Sailing home, sailing home
 The last of the hunters sailing home
 From the mighty fleets of Yarmouth to the deep ships of Hull
 The famous fleet with trawlers all have suffered from the cull
 In lossing mouth Loch earn at Fisher row, hit and weep
 Golden days and memory now are fading dream
 Quite now the harbours where the distant decorings
 Eriskay and scalpay where the hering men were Kings
 Laiden deep for stornaway, the skipper chair of throne
 Legends of the sea and still the ghost are sailing home
 Sailing home, sailing home
 The last of the hunters sailing home
 Sailing home, sailing home
 The last of the hunters sailing home
 Our elma strong increpit, and men are heroes of renoun
 A shadow of the past traded off and torn down
 The pawns of politicians games lies ravage to the bowl
 But still they go to see, and still the boats come sailing home
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 And in New lin, Primith, Wavermith pool
 The washing grims me down
 Nar sheils and nymith, Peterhead
 The broth, they'll hold their ground
 Orkney, Shetland and the hebrides will hold the lankin time
 For ceel the Isle of man and cille benks they will not die
 So we'll toast the Malaig trawlers and the creel men of the west
 Polatic ships of wallsy and the seeners of caithness
 Bring some beamers, Cornish cathers and in many piers in pole
 We'll give them a welcome at the harbour when the boats come sailing home
 Sailing home, sailing home
 The last of the hunters sailing home
 Sailing home, sailing home
 The last of the hunters sailing home
 Sailing home, sailing home
 The last of the hunters sailing home
 Sailing home, sailing home
 The last of the hunters sailing home