A Fishwife’s Response to The Wellerman Sea Shanty

A response to “The Wellerman“, from the point of view of the unflagging fishwives of the Scottish east coast. Lyrics adapted from the traditional song “Caller Herrin’“, then thrown over “The Wellerman“ tune (by The Longest Johns) for good measure. Weirdly tuned to A ~ 420 hz because Con lost track in her original take... (Con is far too excited that history and acapella are trending.) Want Con to sing something for you? Check out her Fiverr profile! - **A few of you have taken an interest in the history of the fishwives in the comments below, so here’s a link to a National Library of Scotland page which gives a bit more info (and which provided us with inspiration for the lyrics!): The 5th paragraph describes how the whole community - men and women - relied upon each other for income. Hyped that this video is making people curi
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