Talking Fishing Blues Lyrics

I went down to the fishing hole
And I set down with my fishing pole
Somethin' grabb'd my hook and it got my bait
And Jerked me out in the middle of the lake
Huh, it was some jump boy
I got sunk, kinda baptized on credit

Fishin' down on th' muddy bank
Felt a pull an' give a big yank
I drug out three old rubber boots
A Ford radiator an' a Chevrolet coop
(Nothin' but Junk so I handed it in for National Defence)

Settin' in a boat with a bucket of beer
Hadn't caught nothin' but didn't much care
I guess I was pretty well satisfied
Had my little woman right by my side
(Takin' it easy, just waitin'
Worm been gone off-a that hook for a couple of hours)
(I was busy)

When you go fishin', tell y' what to do
Go set down by the gra*sy dew
Take a piece of string, tie it on yo' pole
Throw it way out in th' middle of th' hole
Find you a good shady tree and then just set down
(Go to sleep, forget all about it, can't catch nothin' here anyways)

Well, I walked out to a sandy bar
And I caught myself a big alligator gar
Drug him home across my back
Tail was dragging a mile and a half
Flippin' an' floppin', I sold him for a quarter
(Shot craps, got in Jall)

Jumped in the river and went down deep
There was a hundred pound cat-fish lying there asleep
Well, I jumped on his back and rode him all aroun'
Saddled him up and I came into town
People came runnin', lookin', dogs a-barkin'
(Kids a-squallin')

Early one mornin' I took me a notion
To go out fishin' in the middle of the ocean
Well, throwed me a line, I got me a shark
I didn't get him home till way past dark
(Was he a man-eater, tough customer)
(But he wasn't quite tough enough)

Late last night I had me a dream
I was out fishin' in a whiskey stream
Baited my hook with apple-jack
Threw out a drink, drug a gallon back
(Done pretty good till the creek run dry)
(I give the fish back to the finance company)

Woody Guthrie - American Folk Legend

Dec 2005

1. Pastures of Plenty
2. So Long (It's Been Good to Know Yuh)
3. Hard, Ain't It Hard
4. Car Song
5. Ramblin' Round
6. Ship in the Sky
7. Sinking of the Reuben James
8. Do-Re-Mi
9. Jesus Christ
10. When the Curfew Blows (Curfew Blow)
11. 1913 Massacre
12. Talking Fishing Blues
13. Pretty Boy Floyd
14. Grand Coulee Dam
15. Hard Travelin'
16. Wreck of the Old '97
17. Sally Goodin'
18. Farmer-Labor Train
19. I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore
20. Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Get Along Little Dogies
21. Jesse James
22. Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
23. When That Great Ship Went Down
24. Billy the Kid
25. Buffalo Gals
26. Dead or Alive (Poor Lazarus)
27. Slipknot (Hangknot, Skipknot)
28. New York Town
29. This Land Is Your Land
30. Buffalo Skinners
31. Mule Skinner Blues
32. Jarama Valley
33. New Found Land
34. Talking Columbia
35. Talking Sailor
36. Cowboy Waltz
37. Go Tell Aunt Rhody
38. Chisholm Trail
39. Ranger's Command
40. Stackolee
41. Danville Girl
42. Better World A-Comin'