Talk Sport-Fishermans Blues?

Question

I listen to this program most weekends.

Just before it starts he tells a fishermans poem and then this jingle small song is sung..

I wish I was a fisherman lalalalala

Does anyone know who sings this and where on the net can I get the words to this jingle?

Thanks

Answer 1

It was a song by the Waterboys. Look for it on youtube

Fisherman's Blues

I wish I was a Fisherman, tumbling on the sea,

Far away from dry land and it's bitter memories,

Casting out my sweet nets, with abandonment and love,

love's feeling bearing down on me, and a starry sky above,

With light in my head, and you in my arms, ooh, hoo, hoo, ooh, hoo, hoo

I wish I was the brakeman on a hurtling fever train,

Crashing headlong into the heartland, like a cannon in the rain,

The beating of the sleepers and the burning of the coal

Watching the towns flashing by, on a night that's full of soul

With light in my head, and you in my arms, ooh, hoo, hoo, ooh, hoo, hoo

No more I will be loosened from bonds that hold me fast,

and these chains all around me will fall away at last,

and on that fine April day I will take thee in my arms,

I will ride on that train, I will be that fisherman,

With light in my head, and you in my arms, ooh, hoo, hoo, ooh, hoo, hoo

by the Waterboys on Ensign Records circa 1983,