Talking Fish Blues-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Talking Fish Blues] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Bob Dylan's Woody Guthrie Selection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Talking Fish Blues - Woody Guthrie [00:04.54]I went down to the fishing hole [00:06.41]And I set down with my fishing pole [00:08.09] [00:09.05]Something grabbed my hook and it got my bait [00:11.45]And it jerked me out in the middle of the lake [00:12.90] [00:14.71]Some jump I got sunk [00:17.09] [00:18.56]Baptized on credit [00:20.26] [00:22.34]Fishing down on the muddy bank [00:24.26]Felt a pull and give a big yank [00:26.10]I hauled out three old rubber boots [00:28.07]And a Ford radiator and a Chevrolet coupe [00:29.56] [00:31.34]Handed it in for National Defence [00:33.21] [00:35.54]Setting in a boat with a bucket of beer [00:37.33]And I hadn't caught nothing but I didn't much care [00:39.31]I guess I was pretty well satisfied [00:41.15]I had my little lady right by my side [00:42.88] [00:44.96]Taking it easy just a-waiting [00:48.40] [00:50.86]Worm been gone off that hook for couple hours [00:53.59] [00:56.81]You go fishing I'll tell you what to do [00:58.75]You go set down by the grassy slough [01:00.37] [01:01.37]Take a piece of string and tie it on your pole [01:03.59]And throw it way out in the middle of the hole [01:06.06] [01:07.01]Find you a good shade tree and then just set down [01:09.19] [01:11.30]Go to sleep forget all about it [01:13.95] [01:17.45]Jumped in the river and went down deep [01:19.23]There was a hundred pound catfish lying there asleep [01:20.83] [01:22.29]Jumped on his back and rode him into town [01:24.07] [01:25.53]Saddled him up and I come to town [01:26.81] [01:28.93]People came running looking [01:31.64] [01:32.23]Dogs a-barking kids a-squalling [01:34.37] [01:38.32]Stagnate water's a stinking thing [01:40.30]Slick on top and all turned green [01:42.01] [01:44.01]When the water goes bad the fish all run [01:45.68] [01:46.80]Sit all day and not catch a-one [01:48.24] [01:49.62]Cept old rubber boots you gots [01:52.61] [01:54.00]Few little suckers [01:54.95] [01:56.53]I waded out to a sandy bar [01:58.29]And I caught myself a big alligator gar [02:00.25]Brung him home across my back [02:01.77] [02:02.94]Tail was dragging a mile and a half [02:04.46] [02:06.24]Flipping and flopping [02:07.18] [02:07.80]Sold him for a quarter [02:08.86] [02:10.33]Shot craps got in jail [02:13.91] [02:19.01]Early one morning I took me a notion [02:20.93]To go out a-fishing in the middle of the ocean [02:22.58] [02:23.44]Throwed out my line I caught me a shark [02:25.22]I didn't get him home til way past dark [02:27.37] [02:28.92]He a man-eater tough customer [02:31.86] [02:33.49]Just wasn't quite tough enough [02:34.74] [02:38.51]Late last night I had me a dream [02:40.37]I was out fishing in a whiskey stream [02:41.84] [02:43.80]Baited my hook with apple-jack [02:45.30] [02:46.32]Threw out a drink and bring a gallon back [02:48.70] [02:50.68]Done pretty good til the creek run dry [02:53.68] [02:55.57]So I gave my fish back to the finance company