Shipping Song

Rockall, Faeroes, Tyne
Fair Isle, Cromarty, Forth
South Utsire, North Utsire, Viking, Sole
Bailey, Malin, Shannon, Irish Sea
FitzRoy, Trafalgar, Forties
Plymouth, Lundy, Fastnet
German Bight, Portland, Wight
Humber

Oh waters that cradle
This strange salty fable
Running through our fins
Interconnected
From blue to silver to green
Down force ten northern winds
And severally returns
Spit words yet to be thought
By tongues yet to be seen
And deeds yet to be wrought
By brains yet to be born
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Dogger, Fisher
Biscay
Hebrides
Dover, Thames
Southeast Iceland