Talking Fishing Blues-Woody Guthrie/Cisco Houston

[ti:Talking Fishing Blues] [ar:Woody Guthrie/Cisco Houston] [al:American Icon] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.36]Talking Fishing Blues - Woody Guthrie/Cisco Houston [00:01.90]Written by：Guthrie [00:02.61] [00:04.91]I went down to the fishing hole [00:06.61]And I set down with my fishing pole [00:08.24] [00:09.28]Something grabb'd my hook and it got my bait [00:11.60]And jerked me out in the middle of the lake [00:13.61] [00:14.98]Some jump [00:15.63] [00:16.81]I got sunk baptized on credit [00:20.65] [00:22.74]Fishing down on th' muddy bank [00:24.51]Felt a pull an' give a big yank [00:26.44]I holed out three old rubber boots [00:28.10]A ford radiator an' a Chevrolet coop [00:29.90] [00:31.70]I handed it in [00:32.37]For national defence [00:33.37] [00:35.83]Setting in a boat with a bucket of beer [00:37.48]Hadn't caught nutting but didn't much care [00:39.30]I guess I was pretty well satisfied [00:41.18]Had my little lady right by my side [00:43.11] [00:45.26]Taking it easy yeah still waiting [00:48.57] [00:51.22]Worm been gone off a that hook for a couple of hours [00:53.96] [00:57.12]You go Fishing tell y' what to do [00:58.90]Go set down by the grassy dew [01:00.59] [01:01.58]Take a piece of string tie it on yo' pole [01:03.64]And throw it way out in th' middle of th' hole [01:06.16] [01:07.28]Find you a good shady tree and then just set down [01:09.56] [01:11.65]Go to sleep forget all about it [01:14.38] [01:17.81]Jumped in the river and went down deep [01:19.58]There was a hundred pound cat fish lying there asleep [01:21.19] [01:22.50]I jumped on his back and rode him all around [01:24.49] [01:25.78]Saddled him up and I came into town [01:27.29] [01:29.24]People came running looking dogs a barking [01:33.97]Kids a squalling [01:34.79] [01:38.65]Stagnate water's a stinking thing [01:40.52]Slick on top and all turned green [01:42.20] [01:44.30]When the water goes bad the fish all run [01:46.22] [01:47.02]Sit all day and not catch a one [01:48.46] [01:50.03]Mud wallopers jewgars [01:52.72] [01:54.31]A few little suckers [01:55.20] [01:56.87]I waded out to a sandy bar [01:58.52]And I caught myself a big alligator gar [02:00.36]Brung him home across my back [02:01.92] [02:03.25]Tail was dragging a mile and a half [02:04.99] [02:06.45]Flipping and flopping [02:07.35] [02:08.11]Sold him for a quarter [02:09.11] [02:10.59]Shot craps got in jail [02:13.91] [02:19.39]Early one morning I took me a notion [02:21.04]To go out a Fishing in the middle of the ocean [02:22.96] [02:23.78]Throwed out my line I caught me a shark [02:25.34]I didn't get him home 'til way past dark [02:27.59] [02:29.18]He's man eater tough customer [02:32.22] [02:33.80]Just wasn't quite tough enough [02:35.05] [02:38.87]Last last night I had me a dream [02:40.50]I was out Fishing in a whiskey stream [02:42.16] [02:44.09]Baited my hook with apple jack [02:45.42] [02:46.61]Threw out a drink drug a gallon back [02:49.01] [02:50.97]Done pretty good till the creek run dry [02:53.70] [02:55.97]I give the fish back to the finance company