The Fisherman's Wife
(Finley Mullally)
From the 1993 Gowan Brae recording

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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