Mingulay Boat Song (https://open.spotify.com/track/43h8kto4BTScWOwAhAjUZ3)
Mingulay is an uninhabited island with high cliffs with nesting seabirds, at the southern end of the Outer Hebrides. Fishermen returning home from the Atlantic would feel that they were nearly home when they passed by the islands. Although the tune and these words are similar to other sea shanties, these words were written by Sir Hugh Robertson in 1938 for the Glasgow Orpheus Choir.
Mingulay
Boat Song
Heel y'ho boys, let her go, boys
Bring her head round, into the weather
Heel y'ho boys, let her go boys
Sailing homeward to Mingulay!
What care we tho' white the
What care we for, wind and weather?
Let her go boys, every inch is
Wearing homeward to Mingulay!
Wives are waiting on the qauyside
They’ve been waiting since break of day
Bring her 'round boys, and we'll anchor
'Ere the sun sets on Mingulay!
Bairns are sleeping by the fireside
Rocking gently in the cradle
There’s a candle in the window
ere the men folk return from sea.
The Exmouth Shanty Men are proud to be associated with
