Help: Know Any Fishing Songs???

Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs???
From: JB3
Date: 11 Oct 10 - 12:13 AM

Yea Ho Little Fish is in the data-base. It's a lovely little song, sometimes used as a lullaby.

Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs???
From: The Sandman
Date: 11 Oct 10 - 12:57 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peA18SO9afU farewell to the humber and dogger

Subject: Lyr Add: FISHERMAN'S LUCK (from Dixon Brothers)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 14 May 15 - 04:09 PM

You can hear this on YouTube:


FISHERMAN'S LUCK
As sung by The Dixon Brothers, 1937.

One day I went a-fishin' and I used a frog for bait.
I slung it in the water and I pulled me out a snake.
I had me a bottle o' moonshine to keep me feeling right.
You should have been a-watchin'; well, it was an awful sight.

I pulled his mouth wide open and I poured some whiskey in,
And then I turned that snake a-loose and I used my frog again.
I caught me a great big jackfish, but one thing I did hate:
That doggone greedy pounder(?) had gobbled down my bait.

I then got busy thinking, and I got to feeling blue.
I could not find another frog and I didn't know what to do.
I soon got tired of thinking and I leaned against a tree.
I was calmly smoking when something come to me.

It touched me on the shoulder; I looked around to see,
That doggone water rattler had come to trade with me.
Frogs I think a dozen, he brought them to the bank,
There where I was a-fishin', to trade them in for drink.

The frogs was all around me; the snake coiled(?) on the ground.
He smiled and winked his eye at me and he drank my whiskey down.
Now this will end my story; that rattler headed south.
He crawled away so happy with my bottle in his mouth.


Spotify has recordings by—
Mike Seeger on "Old Time Country Music" (1962)
Roy Harper & Johnny Beller on "Memphis Music & Heritage Festival: Live 1989 Highlights"
(There are other songs with the same title.)

Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs???
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 14 May 15 - 09:03 PM

we are putting out in a couple of weeks a lovely collection of songs all about salmon. Most are about fishing but not all. 20 songs for $10 plus shipping US. Plus there's more. This is called spring run. Hopefully by labor day will be another 15-20 songs, called fall run. I think lovers of salmon lore will really like this...and folklorists, historians, lovers of maritime music will too...just pm me if interested.

Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs???
From: olddude
Date: 14 May 15 - 09:23 PM

Way cool congrats

Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs???
From: eftifino
Date: 15 May 15 - 03:14 AM

One from my childhood, heard on BBC radio.

I'm Fishing!
Don't come anybody, don't come near,
I'm just afraid 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.( sung quietly)
That's what I'm doing.( sung quietly)
Fishing1

Subject: Lyr Add: CATFISH (from Chris Smither)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 11 Jul 18 - 11:49 PM

There are 2 lines missing from the version posted by Frankie back on 31-Mar-2000 (which apparently got copied into the DT).


CATFISH
As recorded by Chris Smither on "Another Way to Find You" (1992)

You know I'm standin' by the water, just starin' at the stream.
Tell me, honey: are there any catfish in your dreams?
Well, catfish ain't expensive, boy, neither is it free.
Child, some folks crazy 'bout 'em, others have to leave it be.

You walk down to the bank so you can flash your bait.
You lookin' for a catfish, child, you ain't got long, you ain't got long to wait.

Boy, catfish got whiskers and a sweet little grin,
But you never can tell where a catfish has been.
Suckers and bullheads never will do.
That ol' catfish will show you a thing or two.

You walk down to the bank so you can flash your bait.
You lookin' for a catfish, child, you ain't got long to wait.

Boy, I'll be your catfish, honey, any ol' time.
You just call out my name an' darlin' drop me your line,
'Cause I'm standin' by the water just starin' at the stream.
Boy, tell me, honey, are there any catfish in your, catfish in your, catfish in your dreams?

Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs???
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 12 Jul 18 - 01:18 AM

I once came across a book made up of fishing songs, not being interested in the subject, I didn't bother - in hindsight, I regret that decision bitterly
I see from a quick search that it is still available as a facsimile reprint from 'The Book Depository at the very reasonable price of about £15 sterling, made more attractive by the fact that the Book Depository doesn't charge for postage and packing

Title
A Fisher's Garland" : Being a Collection of Some Sangs O the Fishin, Newcassel Sangs, the Fishin' Club Sangs, and Other Verse (1905)
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs???
From: r.padgett
Date: 12 Jul 18 - 02:33 AM

The original posting was I think about fishing as in angling and a lot of responses from US catters ~ UK fishing/angling songs seem scarce ~ anyone got such songs? could be some Scottish songs out there as in fly fishing

Ray

Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs???
From: Gutcher
Date: 12 Jul 18 - 09:12 AM

From the back o beyont 70yrs. and more ago:--

Way down upon a Swanee river
Whaur aa fell in
Tryin tae catch wee Baggie Minnows
Wey a condensed milk tin.

O the lassies roared and laughed
Et me faa"n in
Way down upon a Swanee river
Wey maa condensed milk tin.

We always kept a trout in the well to eat any insects that fell in, when this trout needed to be replaced we would guddle for a replacement in the burn.
A verse from the old bothy ballad, Carnwath Mill, {we did have a few bothy ballads in Southern Scotland} runs:--

Aa slipit maa haun doon the neck o her goon
Jist tae gie her bit paps a kittle
Man she writhed an riggled an pretended tae swoon
Jist like a troot that ye"d newlie guddled.


Ah days of youth how sweet are ye
But ye ne"er return again.