The StrÖmming Boats Harmonica Tabs

Scandinavian Folk Song

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The boats are home-ward com-ing

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a-cross the brim-ming fjord

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the nets are full of ström-ming

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and all are gay a-board

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but home-ward nev-er-more comes my sail-or

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the fish-ers huts are lad-en

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they’re bak-ing brit-tle bread

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what care they that a maid-en

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is weep-ing for her dead

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that bells will nev-er ring for her wed-ding

2.
O cold the storm as blowing
No winding sheet had he
No parting kiss bestowing
They buried him at sea
With all my heart beside
In the blue tide

• strömming- a fish much like a herring
caught in large quantities off the Gulf
of Bothnia Sweden.