‘I pray, come tell to me thy name,

Oh! tell me where does thy dwelling be?’

‘My name it is good Hein Mailer,

An’ I earn my livin’ oot o’ the sea.

5.

‘I am a man upon the land;

I am a selchie in the sea;

An’ whin I’m far frae every strand,

My dwellin’ is in Shool Skerrie.’

6.