Songs about fish??

Subject: Songs about fish??
From: Roz
Date: 19 Jun 17 - 05:27 PM

Going to be leading a summer camp pretty soon all about fish in the the Champlain valley. Anybody know any good fishing songs?

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: Jack Campin
Date: 19 Jun 17 - 05:50 PM

Leon Rosselson: "Who Ever Invented the Fish Finger?".

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 19 Jun 17 - 06:19 PM

Perhaps not No More Fish, No Fishermen. Sorry, Finest Kind.

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: Joe_F
Date: 19 Jun 17 - 06:25 PM

Itty Bitty Fishes

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 19 Jun 17 - 06:35 PM

The broadside ballad "The monstrous fish", probably about a whale.

Robin

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 19 Jun 17 - 07:14 PM

Little Boy Fishin' by Shirley Abicair.

"We settled on "Willie Can" and recorded it with George Martin at Parlophone. George Martin, too, had got the message, and his warm, silent understanding and musicianship was right with us when I recorded "Smiley" and "Little Boy Fishin'" which followed in the summer.

"The Fisherman Song", sung by Judy Collins and the Anything Muppets on Sesame Street in 1972.

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: gillymor
Date: 19 Jun 17 - 07:18 PM

MC thread with quite a few songs and a bunch with lyrics:

Click here


Fishin' Blues- Taj Mahal.

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 20 Jun 17 - 02:01 AM

Gone fishin', by a shady, wady pool
I'm wishin' I could be that kind of fool
I'd say, "No more work for mine"
On my door, I'd hang a sign,
"Gone fishin'" instead of just wishin'

Gone fishin', got your hound dog by your side
Gone fishin', fleas are bitin' at his hide
Folks won't find us now because
Mister Satch and mister Cros
We gone fishin' instead of just a-wishin'

Bah-boo-baby-bah-boo-bah-bay-mmm-bo-bay
Oh yeah!

Songwriters; CHARLES F KENNY, NICK A KENNY

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: GUEST,Mike Yates
Date: 20 Jun 17 - 03:22 AM

Robert Rixby and Thomas Doubleday wrote a number of songs about fishing, many of which appeared in their book "The Fisher's Garland", printed in 1823. The pair were from Newcastle. One song, "Coquet Side" can be heard on the CD "The Quiet Hills" (Kyloe CD105), sung by local shepherd Graham Dick.

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: GUEST,BobL away from home
Date: 20 Jun 17 - 03:25 AM

Ballad of the Chivalrous Shark. Although in this day and age, not many people seem to understand the difference between "man" (= animal species Homo Sapiens) and "man" (= adult male human), on which the joke depends.

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: banjoman
Date: 20 Jun 17 - 04:30 AM

How about "The Herring"
The herring is the king of the sea etc.

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 20 Jun 17 - 06:37 AM

There's a plaice for us - from West Side Story

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: oldhippie
Date: 20 Jun 17 - 08:08 AM

"The Fisherman" - title cut of CD by Lt Bobby Ross. A bit of a tall tale.

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Jun 17 - 08:50 AM

Fishermans Blues..The Waterboys. Squidjiggin Grounds, Hank Snow, The Great Lobster Boil , Lem Snow.

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: eftifino
Date: 20 Jun 17 - 08:52 AM

I remember in the '60s a little one verse ballad called: I'm Fishing

I'm Fishing
Dont talk anybody, dont come near,
Cant you see that the fish might hear.
He thinks I'm playing with a piece of string
He thinks I'm another sort of - funny sort of thing
But he doesn't know I'm fishing
He doesn't know I'm fishing
That's what I'm going

Fishing.

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: Alan Day
Date: 20 Jun 17 - 09:40 AM

The Cockle Pickers Daughter (Sea fish though)
One of mine.
Al

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: GUEST,RA
Date: 20 Jun 17 - 10:19 AM

'Jolly Herring' as sung by Phoebe Smith.

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 20 Jun 17 - 10:24 AM

Whale kipper whelk-ome in the hillsides?

:D tG

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 20 Jun 17 - 01:54 PM

Windy old Weather, Bob Roberts/Sam Larner has an endless supply of fish, one for each verse ad infinitum. (broadsides 'The Fishes')

Similarly 'Dance to your Daddy'

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: Felipa
Date: 20 Jun 17 - 02:28 PM

the goldfish is a funny fish
He doesnt make a sound
He just swims round and round
And round and round and round and round
And round and round and round and round and round and round
and round and round and round

~ of course that's humans' fault, keeping the poor fish in a little round orb. Tune sounds like a hymn but I dont know the name of the it.

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: Felipa
Date: 20 Jun 17 - 02:34 PM

sort of

"Starfish-On-The-Toast" Donovan

Fine rock pooling coast
this starfish on the toast
the men in the herring boats they cry

Far across the harbor
and 'round the sandy cove
the shepherd with his pipe and sheepy drove

big cloud tumbling high
the amazing flying sky
how the gulls are pillaging the town

fan faring daffodilly
trumpetingly small
all along the bathing hut wall

far across the empty beach
the tide has built a world
old men in tweed find study there

Holding whelks and periwinkles
trembling in his hand
little does he know they hold him too

[I got lyrics off web and changed some words to what I remember, but it may need corrected]

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: Snuffy
Date: 21 Jun 17 - 04:07 AM

Felipa, the hymn tune for the Goldfish song is known as "St. Anne" and is commonly used for the hymn "O God, Our Help In Ages Past"

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 21 Jun 17 - 04:36 AM

Shoals of Herring by Ewan McColl

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 21 Jun 17 - 04:39 AM

'Under the sea' from Disney's 'Little Mermaid'.

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Jun 17 - 08:08 AM

Octopus's Garden, The Beatles

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Jun 17 - 09:09 AM

Not a fish, but...Baby Beluga.

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: GUEST,CupOfTea, no cookies
Date: 21 Jun 17 - 05:46 PM

The goldfish one (round and round and round) I heard Judy Cook sing as alternate lyrics to Auld Lang Syne, not a hymn, but same funny effect (particularly since that's one song folks can seldom get past the first verse)

Stan Rogers' "Tiny Fish For Japan" "Jeannie C"

"Codfish Ball" - might have come from Shirley Temple - I know it as a jug band piece done by the Smokin' Fez Monkeys

"Good Fish Chowder" on a Deb Cowan album - FUN singalong as she does it.

"Hey Ho Little Fishes" - Bok, Muir Tricket or Cooper & Nelson versions
"Dance to thy Daddy"both lullaby sorts of songs

Archie Fisher's "Final Trawl" - end of the life of a fishing boat.
Jeannie C is one of a slew of fishing boat disaster songs, that are more about the boat than fishing. like" Threescore and Ten" & ""The Bergen" (Jez Lowe)

Joanne in Cleveland, contemplating the concept of fishing in post EPA times.

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 21 Jun 17 - 09:28 PM

And they swam, and they swam,

All over that dam.



Little fisheries Three



Sincerely,
Gargoyle



"Golden Book Nursery Rhymes" circa 1954'

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: Mr Red
Date: 22 Jun 17 - 05:12 AM

Swim Sam, Swim (Mudcat thread)

WHEN THE BOAT COMES IN / DANCE TO THY DADDY (Mudcat thread)

and there another Mudcat thread on that Frankie Howerd/Three Little Fishes song

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: Peter the Squeezer
Date: 22 Jun 17 - 05:30 AM

Skater's Waltz

Nearer my Cod to Thee

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jun 17 - 08:30 AM

In Cod We Trust

Subject: RE: Songs about fish??
From: The Sandman
Date: 22 Jun 17 - 01:59 PM

Cod Banging