The Herring Song
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The Herring Song, also known as Bolliton Sands, The Red Herring and Jolly red herring is a folk-song found in various forms and believed to be associated with the once-thriving herring-fishing industry in the North Sea
. Several different variants of the song are known.
North Sea
In the southwest, beyond the Straits of Dover, the North Sea becomes the English Channel connecting to the Atlantic Ocean. In the east, it connects to the Baltic Sea via the Skagerrak and Kattegat, narrow straits that separate Denmark from Norway and Sweden respectively...
. Several different variants of the song are known.