Talking Fishing Blues chords by Arlo Guthrie
Verse 1
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I went
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down to the fishin' hole
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I sat down with my fishin' pole
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Somethin' grabbed my
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hook and it got my bait
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And jerked me out into the middle of the lake
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Some jumped,
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but some got baptized on credit
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I was fishin' down on the
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muddy bank
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and I felt a pull and I give a big yank and I
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hauled out a pair of muddy boots
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that Ford radiated
and the Chevrolet Coupe
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hanged it in for national
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defense.
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Sittin' in the boat with a bucket of beer
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and I hadn't caught nothin' but her, didn't
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I guess I was pretty well satisfied
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Half a little woman right by my side
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Takin' it easy
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Worm been gone off of that hook
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Just about an hour I was busy
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Well, if you go fishin' I'll
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tell you what to do
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Go sit down by the grass you do
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And you can get a piece of string
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Tied on your pole
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Throw it out into the middle of the hole
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Find a shady tree
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Sit down
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Go to sleep
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I jumped in the river and I
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went down deep
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there's a hundred -pound catfish
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laying there asleep and I jumped on his back and I rode him around and I
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saddled him up and I gunned to town women crying, dogs barking,
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little kids a -squawming
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I waited out on a sandy bar
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and caught myself a big alligator
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Gardner dragged him home
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across my back
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and his tail was dragging
a mile and a half
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Flippin' and floppin',
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sold him for a quarter
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Got drunk, got in jail,
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and I'll never catch any again
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Well, one night I took me and Ocean
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to go out fishing in the middle of
the ocean
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He throwed me out of the line
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and got me a shark
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And I didn't get him
home till way past dark
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He was a man eater, tough customer
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Just wasn't quite tough
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enough
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Well, late last night I had me a dream
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I was out fishin' in a whiskey stream
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And I baited my hook with applejack
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Threw out a drink and I
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brung a gallon back
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Done pretty good, till the creek run dry
I give the fish back to the
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finance company you
Talking Fishing Blues
Arlo Guthrie
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