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Help: Know Any Fishing Songs???
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Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Airto Date: 12 Sep 02 - 01:17 PM Lazybones, sleeping in the sun... |
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Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Airto Date: 12 Sep 02 - 01:18 PM ...and when you go fishin, I'll bet you keep wishin the fish don't bite your line... |
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Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Jim Dixon Date: 12 Sep 02 - 01:42 PM THE IMPORTANT PART OF FISHIN' by Tim Bays. There is a somewhat different version earlier in the thread. |
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Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Jim Dixon Date: 12 Sep 02 - 01:57 PM LAZY BONES (sometimes spelled LAZYBONES) by Johnny Mercer & Hoagy Carmichael, (which Airto quoted above) has been posted here, here, and here. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: BEND IN THE WATER (Gordon Lightfoot) From: SharonA Date: 12 Sep 02 - 04:38 PM "BEND IN THE WATER" by Gordon Lightfoot (1975) Come on Pearl, come on Kitty, if you feel inclined Down around the bend in the water, bring your fishin' line Come on Pearl, I'm rough and ready, got my fishin' pole Down around the bend in the water to the fishin' hole It's a fine July on a beautiful night With a heavenly sky and moonlight on the bay Down around the bend in the water, if you feel inclined Come on Pearl, come on Kitty, I'm gonna make you mine All around the world tonight What a beautiful scene below Too fine a time to stand in line I'm gonna take my love to go It's a fine July and a beautiful way For a boy and a girl to pass the time of day Come on Pearl, come on Kitty, if you feel inclined Down around the bend in the water, bring your fishin' line All around the world tonight What a beautiful scene below Too fine a time to stand in line I'm gonna take my love to go It's a fine July on a beautiful night With a heavenly sky and moonlight on the bay Down around the bend in the water, if you feel inclined Come on Pearl, come on Kitty, bring your fishin' line Come on Pearl, I'm rough and ready, got my fishin' pole Down around the bend in the water to the fishin' hole
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Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Deda Date: 12 Sep 02 - 04:57 PM How 'bout the Eddystone light? Well, it's a stretch -- about fish ("one was exhibited as a talking fish, and the other was served on a chafing dish") but not fishing. Seems to me fishing is also mentioned in "Life gets tedjus, don't it" (tedious). |
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Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Deda Date: 12 Sep 02 - 05:00 PM My mistake, the DT versions of Life gets teejus don't show any mention. NEver mind. |
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Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Allan Dennehy Date: 13 Sep 02 - 02:37 PM If theres so many fish in the sea Then why do I always get crabs? |
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Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Amos Date: 13 Sep 02 - 02:39 PM Maybe you're looking for love in all the wrong places, buddy! :>) A |
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Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: GUEST,Boab Date: 14 Sep 02 - 03:02 AM There's a good-un written by a Vancouver Island guy[ can't get the name] "Where the Coho Flash Silver all over the Bay". |
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Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Marc Date: 14 Sep 02 - 11:03 AM "Keep On Fishin" by Jon Campbell, recorded on his CD of the same title. BTW I also recorded it on my CD, Always Wecome. |
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Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Genie Date: 14 Sep 02 - 08:50 PM Mbo, "I lobster and never flounder...". Grrrroannnnn! (Where are those rotten tomatoes when you need 'em?) That's almost as bad as Spaw's song titles. Some other fishing-related songs that come to mind are: Skinny Minnie Fishtail - novelty song about a fisherman who catches a mermaid (sung by Teresa Brewer in the 1950s) Shrimp Boats (sung by Jo Stafford in the 1950s) Curimaõ (sp?) - Portugese fishing song recorded by the Limeliters Los Pescadores (sp?) - sung (written by?) Buffy St. Marie Black Water (Doobie Brothers -- mentions catfish jumping) Blue Bayou (...Where there's fishing boats with their sails afloat ...) Catfish John -- wonderful song The Lobster (Or The Crayfish) - several versions in the DT and forum Three Little Fishies (Fee Widdo Fiddies) was a big hit for Kay Kyser and his band in the mid 1930s. The first chorus is the "boop, boop, diddum, dattum, wottum, shoo." The ensuing choruses get sillier and sillier, until the last one is pure sound effects. It's worth looking up a tape of the Kyser version. Then, of course, many sea chanties specifically refer to fishing, either for whales or for other prey. Genie
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE BOLD FISHERMAN From: GUEST,Bman Date: 14 Sep 02 - 11:35 PM As mentioned above, "THE BOLD FISHERMAN." THE BOLD FISHERMAN There was a bold fisherman was outbound from Halifax To catch the wild codfish and the bold mackeroo, But when he got to Pimlico, the stormy winds begin to blow, And his little boat went wibble-wobble and overboard went he.
CHORUS
He wriggled and he jiggled in the water so briny-o.
His ghost walked at midnight by the bedside of his Mary Jane.
I have no earthly idea where I learned this song. It would have been sometime about 1970 or a bit later. I was astounded to find that Humphrey Bogart begins singing this one at the very end of "African Queen," when he's in the water swimming with Katherine Hepburn. He gets out a line or two before the movie ends. The song has a very upbeat, sprightly tune and rhythm, and when I sing it, I introduce it as the jolliest song about death and insanity I know. |
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Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: The Pooka Date: 15 Sep 02 - 12:25 AM "Fishy Doo-Ah" by Nancy Tucker. Can't find the lyrics; but it's on some albums I think. Google it. / "Shoals of Herring", of course, rules. |
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Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: GUEST Date: 15 Sep 02 - 12:35 AM THREE LITTLE FISHIES : Three Little Fishies |
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Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Rustic Rebel Date: 15 Sep 02 - 01:14 AM Elvin Bishop sang one. I'm going fish, fish, fish fish,fish, fish, fishin', I'm going fishin', hook, sinker and line. I'm going fish, fish, fish fish, fish, fish, fishin'. I'm going fishin', just to ease my mind. Rustic |
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Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Genie Date: 15 Sep 02 - 03:37 AM Correction: "Curimaõ" is Brazilian, I think. The language is, of course, Portugese.
Spaw, you forgot these classic fish songs: Genie And for a real song about fish (and seafood), how about "Jambalaya?" (..."Settle down far from town, buy me a pirogue, And I'll catch all the fish in the Bayou..."). |
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Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Genie Date: 15 Sep 02 - 03:44 AM There are also some Hawaiian songs that mention fish/fishing. "My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua, Hawaii" ends with the line, "...Where the humu humu nuku nuku apua'a goes swimming by." (That is the state fish of Hawaii.) "Hukilau" has the line, "...We'll throw our nets out in the sea, And all the hama hama come a-swimming to me." I think "hama hama" is Hawaiian for "fish." Genie |
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Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: GUEST,Salty reel Date: 15 Sep 02 - 05:42 AM Have we had: One, two, three, four, five once I caught a fish alive etc. The tune is the heel and toe polka. |
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Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: GUEST,Guest wdyat24 Date: 15 Sep 02 - 08:42 PM How 'bout "Squid Jiggin' Ground?" I just heard Richard Shindell's "Fishing." Now there's a new twist. wdyat24 |
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Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 04 Feb 04 - 07:59 PM "The Blue Tail'd Fly, English, between 1818-1838. The oldest English song I know of which concerns fishing with a fly- Blue Tail'd Fly .Thread 1141, posted 18 Oct 03, 07:23 PM. Nothing to do with the minstrel song! |
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Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: GUEST Date: 05 Feb 04 - 09:56 AM Silver Darlings '... Oh Herrings are harvest that fishermen glean..' |
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Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: Leadfingers Date: 05 Feb 04 - 12:33 PM Jambalaya - I'm gonna catch all the fish in the Bayou - Hank Williams ? If Wishes Were Fishes - we'd all cast nets in the sea - Eric Bogle ? |
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Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: GUEST,REDice555 Date: 02 May 05 - 02:23 AM I just stumbled across this thread... I can't believe no one has mentioned "Keep Fishin'" by Weezer! Or the greatest song ever written about the hardships of making a living as a fisherman, "The DownEaster Alexa" by Billy Joel!!! |
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Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: Scotus Date: 02 May 05 - 10:52 AM and of course there's 'Up and Awa' wi' the Laverock' by Andy Hunter - recorded by him (accompanied by me), Lizzie Higgins and Heather Heywood. It's a fine song about fishing for trout and then cooking them on the campfire. The tune is the 'Jig of Slurs'. Also John Watt's tongue in cheek 'Kentucky Saturday Night' with its chorus line - 'When the catfish rise, aint no surprise, on Kentucky saturday night'(we frequently tell him that catfish are bottom feeders,BTW). Jack Beck |
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Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: GUEST,MTflyfisher Date: 02 May 05 - 11:38 AM My favorite is "Winken, Blinken and Nod" Eugene Field/Carly Simon. "Going out fishing for the herring fish..." |
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Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: GUEST Date: 03 May 05 - 11:01 AM candlelight fisherman My father was a fisherman bold He lived till he grew old because he'd pull down the pain and pop out the flame To see how the wind do blow If the flame don't flicker he knows There's not enough wind do blow if that silly little flame blows out There's too much wind to go etc |
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Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: Girl Friday Date: 03 May 05 - 11:37 AM Trevor has written a fishing song. PM me and I will try nd get he words from him |
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Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: The Unicorn Man Date: 03 May 05 - 01:07 PM The lad I do adour. This is by Ragged Robbin. It is a song about a fisher woman, who goes out to sea leaving the poor defenceless little love on the shore, waiting for her to come back. "The Folkaholicks" sing a version. If you want the words PM me. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: YANKIN' ON MY YOHNSON (Warren Nelson) From: Jim Dixon Date: 23 Apr 06 - 12:15 PM My wife loves this song. It's frequently played by request on the Honky Tonk program, Saturday nights on WOJB, Hayward, YANKIN' ON MY YOHNSON Warren Nelson [Sound of someone trying to start a boat motor.] (Spoken:) OLE: Oh, this is hard pullin' here. Uffda! This thing sure pulls hard! Doggone it, anyway! Oh! Hey, guys, no matter if you got a short shaft or a long shaft, some o' dese old Yohnsons, oh, are yust hard to get up an' goin'. Vun, two, I know vhat to do. (Sung:) Yankin' on my Yohnson, tryin' to get it started, Tryin' to get it goin', up to go out trollin'. Yes, I'm yankin' on my Yohnson. It gets harder an' harder Pullin' on dat cord. I'm all petered out. (Spoken rhythmically to music:) Maybe I should choke it. Vonder if I'll flood it? T'ink I'll sqveece dat little bulb again, yah, maybe couple more times. Look how old dis hose is! It looks so limp an' sad! It's de only Yohnson I ever owned. I got it from my dad. (Sung:) Yankin' on my Yohnson, tryin' to get it started, Tryin' to get it goin', up to go out trollin'. Yes, I'm yankin' on my Yohnson. It gets harder an' harder Pullin' on dat cord. I'm all petered out. [Sound of boat motor starting and then stalling.] (Spoken:) OLE: Uffda! SVEN: Hey dere, Ole. OLE: Yah, Sven? SVEN: You at dat again? OLE: Oh, yah. SVEN: Oh, give it up. How long you pullin' on dat t'ing? OLE: Oh, I don't know. Maybe it's shorted out. Why don't you come down here an' give it a couple o' pulls? SVEN: No way! I yanked on dat Yohnson for de last time last summer. WOMAN: (with a breathy, Marilyn-Monroe-type voice) Hey, old timer, what are you doing there? OLE: Well, I'm yankin' on my Yohnson, can't you see? WOMAN: Oh, don't hurt yourself! Why, you're too old for this. OLE: Yah, but... WOMAN: Yah-but nothing! Here, let me give you a hand. OLE: Yah, dat might dew it. Give 'er a couple o' pulls. (Sung:) WOMAN: Yankin' on his Yohnson, tryin' to get it started, Tryin' to get it goin', get him up an' goin'. Yes, I'm yankin' on his Yohnson. It's not too hard for me. Oh, pull on de cord... [Sound of motor starting.] (Spoken:) OLE: Oh, dere she goes! WOMAN: Goodbye, Ole. SVEN: Goodbye, Ole. WOMAN: Oh, wait! What's dis? SVEN: Oh no! Dat's de plug for de boat. Oh, no, Ole! You forgot to put de plug in! [Sound of bubbles.] |
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Subject: Fishing Songs - Brad Paisley From: Genie Date: 23 Apr 06 - 04:19 PM Brad Paisley has a song about fishing which has been popular on country stations. He did it on Prairie Home Companion last week. (DK if that was a rerun or not.) There is a video for it too, which you can see on CMT. The verse is about how his wife chews him out for spending too much time fishing and not paying enough attention to her, so she gives him an ultimatum: Fishing or me? The chorus begins: "I'm gonna miss her ... and ends "Hey, looky there. I've got a bite." ;-D |
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Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: Genie Date: 23 Apr 06 - 04:22 PM Our own Mary Garvey has written several wonderful songs about fishing and fishermen, some of which have been recorded by Gordon Bok. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: Lancashire Lad Date: 24 Apr 06 - 03:31 AM A great instrumental by Ken Nicol (Steeleye Span and Albion Band) called Fisherman's Priest on the "Clean Feet, No Shoes" album. Hear a track here. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: Big Jim from Jackson Date: 24 Apr 06 - 07:07 PM One of the most audience pleasing songs I've ever heard is a song on one of Seamus Kennedy's CD's called "Fishin' For Chickens". Most of the audience will disolve in laughter. Great Song. On the serious side, Australia's John Williamson's song "Boyhood Story" is a very moving song and one of my favorites of all the songs he does. For those of you who are not familiar with John's recordings, you are missing a real treat. Find him on line and order a few CD's---they are all good. The above song can be found on the album "Old Man Emu". |
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Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: Cats at Work Date: 25 Apr 06 - 04:49 AM 'Last Fisherman' and 'Cheap Boats' by Jon Heslop. I love 'Taking My Oyster for Walkies'! |
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Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: GUEST,beej Date: 12 Apr 10 - 02:48 PM new posting youtube fly fishers' dream BJ MacLean |
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Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego Date: 12 Apr 10 - 03:52 PM "Mary Ann" - An old favorite of mine. I know it's not a fishing song, per se, but with its references to "the lobster boiling in the pot, the bluefish on the hook," it'll do. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: Charmion Date: 13 Apr 10 - 11:13 AM The Squid-Jiggin' Ground? |
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Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: GUEST,Ken Brock Date: 13 Apr 10 - 11:21 AM A folk musical theater company in Minnesota put together a show called "Guys on Ice", about winter fishing. One of the highlights of Ewan MacColl's Singing the Fishing is "The Net Hauling Song", available on several Ian Campbell Folk Group albums. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: Artful Codger Date: 13 Apr 10 - 07:29 PM The Blind Man's Song—more of a courting song, but the first verse has a fishing theme. There's a song from the early 1830's called (IIRC) "When We Were Going Fishing", set to the tune now familiarly known as "The King of the Cannibal Islands". It was written as a sequel to a song called "Going Out a-Shooting" (to the same tune, and a better song, IMO). Both can be found at the Lester S. Levy site. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: GUEST,pattyClink Date: 14 Apr 10 - 01:05 PM Three Fishers The Boys of Killybegs The Queen of Connemara |
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Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: Alan Day Date: 14 Apr 10 - 01:56 PM A little tune called "The Fishy Fishing Story" I used to play on my wind up gramophone as a little boy The tune started I once went a fishing and I caught a little fish, so small you couldn't see it on the dish. But my Wife was rather proud of it and told a lady friend That was the beginning just now listen to the end Sadly that's all I can remember but the fish got so big as it was passed around it ended up that he was eaten by a shark. I lost the record and I would love to know the rest of the story.Perhaps if it does not turn up I should write an ending. Al |
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Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: GUEST,Erich Date: 15 Apr 10 - 01:37 PM Sorry, here I am again. Little Fishy (Little Fishes) as sung by Eric Bogle, Bandoggs, Erik Ilott I really like this one. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: GUEST Date: 24 May 10 - 02:13 AM I would like to know who sings pass it on and draggin on the bottom and boat butt please |
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Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: GUEST,carmencita Date: 14 Sep 10 - 04:45 PM yes Iam trying to fine the the artiis who sang the song let's go fishing for a day and half what do you say we go away for a wowga wowga who sang that song could you give me the name of the artis who sang it and the one of sip en soda threw a straw hope to here from you soon give the name of the aritis so then i can fine it |
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Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: GUEST,Vicki Kelsey Date: 14 Sep 10 - 11:24 PM How about John Prine's "Whistle and Fish"? "And we'll whistle and go fishin' in Heaven." |
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Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: open mike Date: 15 Sep 10 - 02:36 AM I recently received this super collection of songs all reeled in to one c.d. http://www.fishingmusic.com/ these folks have produced 2 c.d.'s filled with songs about the joys of angling. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: bluerabbit10 Date: 15 Sep 10 - 12:16 PM Here's one of my originals on Ezfolk.com http://ezfolk.com/audio/index.php?mode=player&type=hifi&song_id=9619 Salt Creek © by: Verne Garrison Valley Park, MO May 31, 2007 Fishing (D) was always good on Salt (E) Creek We slipped thru the (A) pasture at Grandpas (D) place Favorite spot found every (E) week Slid thru the weedy (A) banks without a (D) trace (D7) Bobbers (G), hooks, sinkers and a willow (D) pole Swing the (E) line out to the secret (A) spot Let current (D) guide it past the best (A) hole Catfish are (A) biting, get the fire (D) hot (D7) Our (G) tackle box was Moms old (D) purse Sinkers (E) few extra hooks and some fish (A) line Farm (D) boys tackle, could be (A) worse Stringer full of fish in no (D) time Sunfish, catfish and blue (E) gills We would (A) clean them at the horse (D) tank Best spot in these here (E) hills For this we (A) all gave (D) thanks (D7) Grandpa (G) whittled the wooden (D) bobbers And cut for (E) me the long willow (A) pole He always (D) found the best worms under the board (A) walk Fishing the best at Salt Creek (D) hole (A) Fishing the best at Salt Creek (D) hole |
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Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: GUEST Date: 10 Oct 10 - 07:25 AM I write and sing and you can check out my fun fishing songs on my web www.johnkurkosky.com I love to fish so there all about fishin |
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Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: maeve Date: 10 Oct 10 - 09:35 AM Mr. Kurkosky's link |
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