Folk & Traditional Song Lyrics www.traditionalmusic.co.uk We'll Go to Sea No More 
We'll Go to Sea No More
 Oh! blythly shines the bonnie sun Upon the Isle of May, And blythly comes the morning tide Into St. Andrews bay; Then up, gudeman--the breeze is fair; And up my braw bairns three,-There's goud in yonder bonnie boat That sails so well the sea! 
When haddocks leave the Firth of Forth, And mussels leave the shore; 
When oysters climb up Berwick Law, We'll go to sea no more, No more, We'll go to sea no more. ________________________________________________________
 A truncated version of this stanza as "Fisherman's Song", from Fife, in SC (1946), 144 (no. 258) (differs: 3 rolls 5-8 omitted). It is the first of 4 stanzas by the Misses Corbett, from their Odd Volume, Second Series (1827); also in Whitelaw, BSS (1844), 1875, 419. Grace Corbett (c. 17651843), when eleven years old, composed the melody to a new version of "The Siller Crown", printed in Johnson's Scots Musical Museum VI (1803), 605 (no. 585) ["O Mary, ye's be clad in silk", copied from Urbani's collection]; and along with a sister produced several works of fiction, tales, legends, etc. MS APR99