Biography:
Arwen Arabella Hardy, known professionally as Bella Hardy, is an English contemporary folk musician, singer and songwriter from Edale in Derbyshire. She performed in various line-ups as a teenager, including The Pack and Ola, and reached the final of the BBC Young Folk Awards in 2004, but it was the release of her debut solo album Night Visiting in 2007 which garnered her recognition at the forefront of modern folk music.
As a child she was always singing.
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Intro
Dm C Dm C
Dm A# F C
A# C A#
Dm C
Oh you who look down on me with that judgement in your eyes
Dm C
While the jury picks its fate for me I'd have you save your size
F Dm F C
As a child with no family I was begging in the street
F C A#
When great fortune came and made me a herring girl
Dm C
I don't come from there islands from England I have grown
Dm C
And born in Great Yarmouth that is my native home
F Dm F C
In autumn when the girls all chased the fish down from the north
F C A#
How I longed that I would one day be a herring girl
Dm C
A young girl down from Aberdeen took sick into her bed
Dm C
I asked if there was work and down to Rona I was led
F Dm F C
Oh she smiled at the height of me and said that I would do
F C A#
And as a packer I was joined to be a herring girl
Dm C
The season started up in Scotland, I'd just turned 16
Dm C
And Rona she's the greatest gutter Stornoway has seen
F Dm F C
At 80 fish a minute, and with Mary not much less
F C A#
We 3 were famed as the best crew of herring girls
Dm C
Saturday was dancing day and the boys were in the town
Dm C
We were packing up and clean off and heading for our room
F Dm F C
When a stranger crept behind us in an alley out the back
F C A#
Out to catch himself a couple of fresh herring girls
Dm C
Oh so suddenly he was on us and he knocked me to the ground
Dm C
He pinned our Rona by the neck so she couldn't make a sound
F Dm F C
But from her apron pocket fell a knife so clean and sharp
F C A#
I've taught that man the price of fishing for a herring girl
Dm C
Oh you who look down on me with that judgement in your eyes
Dm C
While the jury picks its fate for me I'd have you save your size
F Dm F C
For I'd gladly do the same again to any man that tries
F C A# Dm
To test his luck and take advantage of a herring girl
Bella Hardy's Website: http://www.bellahardy.com/
Dm C Dm C
Dm A# F C
A# C A#
Dm C
Oh you who look down on me with that judgement in your eyes
Dm C
While the jury picks its fate for me I'd have you save your size
F Dm F C
As a child with no family I was begging in the street
F C A#
When great fortune came and made me a herring girl
Dm C
I don't come from there islands from England I have grown
Dm C
And born in Great Yarmouth that is my native home
F Dm F C
In autumn when the girls all chased the fish down from the north
F C A#
How I longed that I would one day be a herring girl
Dm C
A young girl down from Aberdeen took sick into her bed
Dm C
I asked if there was work and down to Rona I was led
F Dm F C
Oh she smiled at the height of me and said that I would do
F C A#
And as a packer I was joined to be a herring girl
Dm C
The season started up in Scotland, I'd just turned 16
Dm C
And Rona she's the greatest gutter Stornoway has seen
F Dm F C
At 80 fish a minute, and with Mary not much less
F C A#
We 3 were famed as the best crew of herring girls
Dm C
Saturday was dancing day and the boys were in the town
Dm C
We were packing up and clean off and heading for our room
F Dm F C
When a stranger crept behind us in an alley out the back
F C A#
Out to catch himself a couple of fresh herring girls
Dm C
Oh so suddenly he was on us and he knocked me to the ground
Dm C
He pinned our Rona by the neck so she couldn't make a sound
F Dm F C
But from her apron pocket fell a knife so clean and sharp
F C A#
I've taught that man the price of fishing for a herring girl
Dm C
Oh you who look down on me with that judgement in your eyes
Dm C
While the jury picks its fate for me I'd have you save your size
F Dm F C
For I'd gladly do the same again to any man that tries
F C A# Dm
To test his luck and take advantage of a herring girl
Bella Hardy's Website: http://www.bellahardy.com/
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