Talking Fishing Blues-Woody Guthrie/The Almanac Singers

[ti:Talking Fishing Blues] [ar:Woody Guthrie/The Almanac Singers] [al:The Essential Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]Talking Fishing Blues - Woody Guthrie/The Almanac Singers [00:00.02]Written by：Guthrie [00:00.03] [00:04.79]I went down to the fishing hole [00:06.44]And I set down with my fishing pole [00:08.41] [00:09.30]Something grabbed my hook and it got my bait [00:11.39]And it jerked me out in the middle of the lake [00:13.05] [00:15.10]Some jump I got sunk [00:17.58] [00:18.90]Baptized on credit [00:20.59] [00:22.73]Fishing down on the muddy bank [00:24.52]Felt a pull and give a big yank [00:26.35]I hauled out three old rubber boots [00:28.24]And a ford radiator and a Chevrolet coupe [00:30.03] [00:31.70]Handed it in for National Defence [00:33.31] [00:35.96]Settin' in a boat with a bucket of beer [00:37.72]And I hadn't caught nothing but I didn't much care [00:39.58]I guess I was pretty well satisfied [00:41.47]I had my little lady right by my side [00:43.03] [00:45.25]Takin' it easy just a waiting [00:48.72] [00:51.24]Worm been gone off that hook for couple hours [00:54.01] [00:57.17]When you go fishin' I'll tell you what to do [00:58.70]You go set down by the grassy slough [01:00.41] [01:01.67]Take a piece of string and tie it on your pole [01:03.58]And throw it way out in the middle of the hole [01:06.16] [01:07.27]Find you a good shade tree and then just set down [01:09.56] [01:11.72]Go to sleep forget all about it [01:14.31] [01:17.82]Jumped in the river and went down deep [01:19.46]There was a hundred pound catfish lying there asleep [01:21.25] [01:22.53]Jumped on his back and rode him into town [01:24.08] [01:25.91]Saddled him up and I come to town [01:27.24] [01:29.31]People came runnin' looking [01:31.65] [01:32.58]Dogs a barkin' kids a squallin' [01:34.66] [01:38.74]Stagnate water's a stinkin' thing [01:40.65]Slick on top and all turned green [01:42.29] [01:44.33]When the water goes bad the fish all run [01:46.17] [01:47.09]Sit all day and not catch a one [01:48.47] [01:50.06]Mud wallopers jewgars [01:52.74] [01:54.55]Few little suckers [01:55.16] [01:56.86]I waded out to a sandy bar [01:58.64]And I caught myself a big alligator gar [02:00.41]Brung him home across my back [02:01.92] [02:03.29]Tail was dragging a mile and a half [02:04.98] [02:06.44]Flippin' and floppin' [02:07.17] [02:08.10]Sold him for a quarter [02:09.07] [02:10.65]Shot craps got in jail [02:13.86] [02:19.35]Early one morning I took me a notion [02:20.80]To go out a fishin' in the middle of the ocean [02:22.59] [02:23.78]Throwed out my line I caught me a shark [02:25.44]I didn't get him home' til way past dark [02:27.72] [02:29.18]He a man eater tough customer [02:31.99] [02:33.95]Just wasn't quite tough enough [02:35.13] [02:38.82]Late last night I had me a dream [02:40.36]I was out fishin' in a whiskey stream [02:42.06] [02:44.09]Baited my hook with apple-jack [02:45.53] [02:46.65]Threw out a drink and bring a gallon back [02:49.07] [02:50.93]Done pretty good 'til the creek run dry [02:53.68] [02:56.04]So I gave my fish back to the finance company