Here’s the tender coming, pressing all the men / Oh dear hinny, what shall we do then? / Here’s the tender coming off at Shield’s Bar / Here’s the tender coming full of men of war

21 August 2024 | James Porteous | Clipper Media Blues

Here’s the Tender Coming, the third album by English folk group the Unthanks, and the first under The Unthanks moniker, was released in the United Kingdom on 14 September 2009 and in North America on 23 March 2010

Lyrics: Here’s the Tender Coming (The Unthanks)

Here’s the tender coming, pressing all the men
Oh dear hinny, what shall we do then?
Here’s the tender coming off at Shield’s Bar
Here’s the tender coming full of men of war

Hide thee canny hinny, hide thyself away
Hide thee till the frigate makes for Druridge Bay
If they take thee Geordie who’s to win our bread?
Me and little Jackie better off be dead

Here’s the tender coming, stealing off my dear
Oh dear hinny, they’ll ship you out of here
They will ship you foreign, that is what it means
Here’s the tender coming, full of red marines

Hey bonny lassie, let’s go to the Lawe
To see the tender lying off at Shield’s Bar
With her colours flying anchor at her bow
They took my bonny laddie best of all the crew

Here’s the tender coming, pressing all the men
Oh dear hinny, what shall we do then?
Here’s the tender coming off at Shield’s Bar
Here’s the tender coming full of men of war

Here’s the tender, coming pressing all the men
Oh dear hinny what shall we do then?

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Chris Price / Traditional / Rachel Unthank / Adrian Mcnally / Niopha Keegan / Becky Unthank

Here’s the Tender Coming lyrics © Annie Reed Music Ltd