Talking Sailor Blues chords by
Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie
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Key: A major
Verse 1
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I went down to the fishing hole
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And I set down with
my fishing pole
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Somethin' grabb'd my
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hook and it got my bait
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And jerked me out in
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the middle of the lake
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Some jump
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D
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I got sunk, baptized on credit
Verse 2
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Fishin' down on th' muddy bank
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Felt a pull an' give a big yank
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I holed out three old rubber boots
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A Ford radiator an' a Chevrolet coop
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I handed it in
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For National Defence
Verse 3
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Settin' in a boat with a bucket
of beer
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Hadn't caught nuthin' but
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didn't much care
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I guess I was pretty well satisfied
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Had my little lady right by my side
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Takin' it easy, yeah still waitin'
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Worm been gone off- a that
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hook for a couple of hours
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You go fishin', tell y' what to do
Verse 4
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Go set down by the grassy dew
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Take a piece of string, tie it on yo' pole
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And throw it way out
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in th' middle of th' hole
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Find you a good shady tree
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and then just set down
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Go to sleep, forget all about it
Verse 5
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Jumped in the river and went down deep
There was a hundred pound
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cat- fish lying there asleep
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I jumped on his back and
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rode him all aroun'
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Saddled him up and I came into town
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People came runnin',
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lookin', dogs a- barkin'
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Kids a- squallin'
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Stagnate water's a stinkin' thing
Verse 6
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Slick on top and all turned green
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Cm
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When the water goes bad, the fish all run
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Sit all day and not catch a- one
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Mud wallopers, jewgars
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A few little suckers
Verse 7
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I waded out to a sandy bar
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And I caught myself a big
alligator gar
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Brung him home across my back
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Tail was dragging a mile and a half
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Flippin' and floppin'
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Sold him for a quarter
Shot craps, got in jail
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Verse 8
Early one mornin',
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I took me a notion
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To go out a- fishin' in the middle
of the ocean
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Throwed out my line, I caught me a shark
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I didn't get him home 'til
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way past dark
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He's man- eater,
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tough customer
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Just wasn't quite tough enough
Verse 9
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Last last night I had me a dream
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I was out fishin' in a whiskey stream
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Baited my hook with apple- jack
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Threw out a drink, drug 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
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