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Manx Folksong – Cashen has gone to Sea

by Bernadette Weyde
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Ta Cashen ersooyl gys yn aarkey – Cashan has gone to Sea

♫ O, Cashen has gone to the fishing,
And glad enough is he to go;
His wife has a tongue like a mill-wheel,
The house that she keeps is a show.

 

I fancy he’ll find consolations,
There’s lots of nice girls at Kinsale;
And Cashen’s the man for the ladies,
He knows how to tell them the tale.

 

We’ll miss him, though, yes, men, we’ll miss him;
For Cashen’s a boy full of bree;
The nights that we’ve spent in this parlour,
With stories and songs of the sea!

 

Fill up! Here’s good wishes to Cashen,
Good catches, and kishens of gold;
May none of the company present
E’er marry a wife that’s a scold! ♫


bree = energy/vigour
kishens = pots

(source: Manx National Music arranged by WH Gill (1898); artwork by Winslow Homer, ‘Light on the Sea’)

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