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". |
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 |
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? |
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. |
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). |
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: 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. |
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. |
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... |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Airto Date: 12 Sep 02 - 01:17 PM Lazybones, sleeping in the sun... |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: GUEST,boromir Date: 12 Sep 02 - 12:04 PM Bet you're goin' fishin' all of the time I'm a'goin' fishin, too. Bet your life, your lovin' wife I can catch more fish than you. Many fish bites if you've got good bait Here's a little tip that I would like to relate Many fish bites if you've got good bait I'm agoin' fishin, yes I'm goin' fishin And my baby's goin' fishin' too. |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Jim Dixon Date: 12 Sep 02 - 10:10 AM WE'RE GONNA GO FISHIN' (posted here), written by Tex Atchison, recorded by Hank Locklin and by Spade Cooley. |
Subject: Lyr Add: ANGLER'S SONG (Isaak Walton, Henry Lawes) From: Ditchdweller Date: 30 Apr 00 - 12:16 PM How about this oldie from the 1660s? THE ANGLER'S SONG
Man's life is but vain,
But we'll take no care,
By Isaak Walton. There is a tune by Henry Lawes. |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: GUEST,winniemih Date: 30 Apr 00 - 11:35 AM did anyone mention "catfish blues" which i remember Ian and Sylvia doing (circa 1965). Sorry, don't have all the words, but here's a fragment: Well i wish, i wish i was a catfish swimming in the deep blue sea. I'd have all you handsome men come fishin' after me. |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: GUEST,chanteyranger Date: 30 Apr 00 - 05:31 AM A few people mentioned Shoals of Herring. It's a beautiful song. Louis Killen has recorded it on his 1995 cd/tape Sailors, Ships and Chanteys, and can be heard singing it live on the tape Music From San Francisco's 1994 Festival of the Sea. I'm not sure, but I think the original radio program "Singing The Fishing," which it was composed for, was released as an album by Folkways and might be in the Library of Congress/Folkways catalogue. |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: WyoWoman Date: 29 Apr 00 - 03:37 PM Thanks, Jim. That's a nice one. WW |
Subject: Lyr Add: I CAUGHT A KEEPER (Mike Dowling)^^ From: Jim Dixon Date: 28 Apr 00 - 05:49 PM I CAUGHT A KEEPER (Mike Dowling/Pinspotter Music, ASCAP) Well, I been fishin' in the sea of love. I been tryin' to catch the one I been dreamin' of. I guess I caught me four or five, Just enough to keep my hopes alive. I let 'em go 'cause they wouldn't do, But I caught a keeper when I caught you. I caught a keeper when I caught you. Now, when my friends see what I've got, They'll be cruisin' on over to my lucky spot. I tell 'em that's all right by me, There's lots of fish in the deep blue sea. You're my limit and I don't need two. 'Cause I caught a keeper when I caught you. I caught a keeper when I caught you. (Bridge:) On the day I found you, I remember how my motor roared. I put my arms around you, an' I hollered, "Man overboard!" Well, I'm so glad you didn't get away. I'm a-gonna keep you near me night and day. You're the best of the whole darned batch. You're my once-in-a-lifetime catch. But now my fishin' days are through, 'Cause I caught a keeper when I caught you. I caught a keeper when I caught you. (Repeat bridge and last verse.) - - - As sung by Barry & Holly Tashian on "Straw into Gold," Rounder 0332. Also on collection "Hills of Home," Rounder CD AN 16/17. @fishing @love JTD |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: GUEST,Frankie Date: 02 Apr 00 - 08:30 AM ...uuuhhh that should read "repeat first verse" at the end of Catfish, not the chorus. Another song, which is flyfishing specific BTW, is Goin' Fishing With Bill by Greg Brown off the excellent "Friend of Mine" collaboration with Bill Morrisey. It contains the line "...A good fisherman is one who has fun and we will." F |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Joan Date: 01 Apr 00 - 04:19 PM Couple of composed songs come to mind: "No More Fish, No Fishermen" is Shelley Posen's and I would guess that it's on a Finest Kind CD, but can't tell you which. "Harbors of Home" is mine (Joan Sprung) and is on a Gordon Bok/Ed Trickett/Annie Mayo Muir CD of the same name. Joan |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: The Beanster Date: 01 Apr 00 - 03:28 AM Yummy!! All we have here (NYC) are giant mutant sea monkeys in the East River. Send me some fish sticks! (crunch crunch) |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: WyoWoman Date: 01 Apr 00 - 03:22 AM Frankie, thanks. I'll check that out (tchotchkes = peripherals = gear = all that stuff that fills out your tackle box). Beanster -- you're right, I do have enough songs for years. But... we don't have sock-eye here, that I know of. We have lots and lots of rainbow trout (a friend just caught a 19-incher day before yesterday) and walleye and brown trout. No catfish either. but last fall a couple of guys were pulling trout out of the river behind my house about as fast as they could cast. So I know they're there... ww |
Subject: Lyr Add: Catfish^^ From: GUEST,Frankie Date: 31 Mar 00 - 11:31 PM Chris Smither does a bluesy version of Danny O'Keefe's Catish on his Another Way to Find You CD. The words go (hope I get this right):
Standing by the water, staring at the stream
Catfish ain't expensive and neither is it free,
Catfish got whiskers and a sweet little grin,
I'll be your catfish honey any old time, Cause I'm standin' by the water...(repeat chorus) WW, I do a bit of fly fishing and get a lot of my tchotchkes(?) from Hook and Hackle's website at very reasonable prices. And for inspiration lately I've been reading Tom McGuane's "The Longest Silence", a collection of his fishing stories. Frankie |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: The Beanster Date: 31 Mar 00 - 11:14 PM Wyo Woman, All these fishie songs ought to last you for years to come! Unbelievable, these 'Catters. Catch us a sockeye!
Aquatically yours, |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: GUEST,campcook@webtv.net Date: 31 Mar 00 - 04:03 PM Try that song moonshine runner by evan johns and the h-bombs it is not it sound like it is about fishing |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 31 Mar 00 - 03:37 AM Jim,Fount, (belated reply, out on union business yesterday).Yep that's the one, usual great Louis obbligato (if that's the right word) behind Bing at the end plus some scat singing. RtS |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: WyoWoman Date: 31 Mar 00 - 01:53 AM Hmmm, DADGBE, you say it was recorded in the 1920s, "a month or two before Taj Mahal's recording" -- I thought Taj Mahal recorded in the 1960s and '70s. ????? ww |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: fox4zero Date: 30 Mar 00 - 06:22 PM I just remembered the song call "Three Little Fishies" It was song in baby-talk...This was a late 30's or early 40's song. Down by the river in an itty bitty pool Lived three little fishies and a mommy fishie too. "Swim" said the mommy fishie "Swim if you can" And they swam and they swam All over the dam. Chorus: Bum bum dittem dottem wannem CHOO * Bum bum diddem dottem wannem CHOO Bum bum dittem dottem wannnem CHOO And they swam and they swam all over the dam. * CHOO was done like a sneeze, as in kerchoo! Larry Parish |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: DADGBE Date: 30 Mar 00 - 12:37 PM Fishing Blues was recorded by Henry Thomas in 1928, a month or two before Taj Mahal's recording. It was rereleased in the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music in the 1950's. The Anthology is now available on CD from Smithsonian Folkways and is WONERFUL!! |
Subject: Lyr Add: BIGGER FISH TO FRY (Woodson/Compton...)^^ From: GUEST,Jim Dixon Date: 30 Mar 00 - 12:12 PM (I'VE GOT) BIGGER FISH TO FRY Lyrics Tim Woodson, Music Tim Woodson, Rob Compton, Pat Stevenson © 1995 Sittin' on the bank of that muddy Mississippi, watchin' that river roll by. Got my cane pole up the air, got my bobber throwed way out there. Gonna catch a big catfish to fry. Sittin' on my bucket, got my cooler by my side Got a big ol' can of worms and a bottle of home made wine. Ain't had a bite in a while, but Lord that's just fine. Gonna watch that sun go down and drink that home made wine. Chorus: Lord it don't get no better than this. Sittin' on that riverbank, gonna catch me a big old fish. Lord if you take me, don't take me tonight. Cause I got a big one on the line. Cane pole hit the water, and I dropped that bottle of wine. Fell off my bucket tryin' to reel in that line. Lord it's a big one, could be the biggest of all time. Don't you know before I pulled him in, that big fish snapped my line? Chorus Recorded by Wildhorse Creek. JTD |
Subject: Lyr Add: SMALL FRY (Loesser/Carmichael)^^ From: GUEST,Jim Dixon Date: 30 Mar 00 - 12:05 PM SMALL FRY Music by Hoagy Carmichael, words by Frank Loesser, © 1938 Small fry, struttin' by the pool room Small fry, should be in the school room My, my, put down that cigarette You ain't grown up high and mighty yet Small fry, dancin' for a penny Small fry, countin' up how many My, my, just listen here to me You ain't the biggest catfish in the sea You practice peckin' all day long to some old radio song Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes You better listen to your pa And someday practice the law And then you'll be a real success Yes, small fry, you kissed the neighbor's daughter Small fry, shoulda stayed in shallow water Seems I should take you 'cross my knee You ain't the biggest catfish in the sea You've got your feet all soakin' wet You'll be the death of me yet Oh me, oh my, small fry Sung by Bing Crosby, Fred MacMurray, and Donald O'Connor in the movie, "Sing You Sinners," 1938. Also used in an animated short, "Small Fry," 1939. @child Peckin' - probably refers to picking out tunes on a piano. Lyrics found at http://www.summer.com.br/~pfilho/html/lyrics/s/small_fry.txt but corrected and information added by Jim Dixon. JTD |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Steve Latimer Date: 30 Mar 00 - 10:38 AM "Spaw, Therapy my boy, therapy. (Although I liked a Koi Named Sue) |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: catspaw49 Date: 30 Mar 00 - 10:31 AM "Your Cheatin' Carp" "You Broke My Heart On Porpoise" "The Lox of Love" "Halibut a Date" "A Koi Named Sue" "The Calamari of Venice" "Don't Think Twice, Its A Bite" "You Wind My Crankbait" Spaw |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: GUEST,malcolm ross Date: 30 Mar 00 - 09:44 AM Shoals of herring written by Ewan Macoll ///well your up on deck-you're a fisherman you can swear and show a manly bearing |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: fox4zero Date: 30 Mar 00 - 02:16 AM "Small Fry" was a hot item in the late 1930's which I had thought was a Bing Crosby number. I didn't see it on the Crosby website. "Small fry, swim in shallow waters Small fry, ?????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????? You ain't the biggest catfish in the sea". The ??????? represent "senior moments" which frequently stretch into hours, days, weeks etc. Luv, Larry Parish
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Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: WyoWoman Date: 30 Mar 00 - 12:27 AM Thanks for all these suggestions, y'all. Of course, being an editor-type person, I actually spelled fishing with a "g" when I searched the Forum, so I missed the previous thread. Silly moi. WW |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: BlueSage Date: 30 Mar 00 - 12:16 AM Eric Wagner, a fisheries biologist from Logan, Utah, recorded a CD of fishing songs recently. You can contact Eric through his email: ewagner@mail.sisna.com Good luck....Mike
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Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Mbo Date: 29 Mar 00 - 10:35 PM Does "The Shoals of Herring" count? **Ducks to avoid flying fish offal** --Mbo |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: raredance Date: 29 Mar 00 - 09:48 PM I was recently in a Minneapolis vinyl emporium and encountered ( and could not pass up) a classic piece of vinyl from 1985, "Somethin' Fishy" by Dale Menten and the Live Bait Band (Weekend Records WR-101). All of the songs were written by Dale Menten (Underbubble Muisc) and it came with a lyric sheet. In the fine print on the back of the dust jacket is the following: "WARNING - All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws. And if you promise not to pirate this record, I, Dale Menten promise to show you where the fish are. Honest" The songs are: Somethin' Fishy; Five-Foot Waves; Mr. All-Science Fisherman; The One That Got Away; Pass It On; Draggin' On The Bottom; Fishin' On Your Mind; Boat Butt; Fishin' Slow. Did you notice how all these fisherpeople disdain the use of the letter "g" at the end of a word? Is it peculiar to the freshwater folk, or maybe the freshwater folk are just more peculiar? Somethin' to think about rather than questionin' my sanity for buyin' all them fishin' recordin's. rich r
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Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: raredance Date: 29 Mar 00 - 09:26 PM Ah I falsely anticipated the false rhyme in Walleye- "Shinder" should be "shiners" [fixed it] In 1994 an outfit called Fish Head Productions released a compilation of fishing songs called "Goin' Fishin', The Greatest Fishing Songs Ever (15 Classic country & Novelty Catches)" The cassette I picked up around then is Sony Music Special Products BT24567/FHP CA 0494. It may also exist as a CD. What follows are the title and artist listings. Some of the songs have been mentioned in this and the previous thread.
Fishin' (Elvin Bishop) The gang at Fish Head Productions claims they had 200 songs from which they chose this 15. Also according to the liner notes, Bobby Bare released a whole album in 1987 called "Bobby Bare Sings Fishin' Songs" rich r |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Caitrin Date: 29 Mar 00 - 09:16 PM The only one I know is a kid's song... Have you ever been a-fishin' on a hot and sunny day? And you see the little fishies swimmin' up and down the bay With their hands in their pockets and their pockets in their pants And all the little fishies do the hoochy-koochy dance! Have you ever been a-fishin' on a hot and sunny day and you're sittin' on a rail, and the rail gave way And a nail in the rail tore a hole in your pants And all the little fishies do the hoochy-koochy dance! |
Subject: Lyr Add: Walleye^^ From: raredance Date: 29 Mar 00 - 09:06 PM WALLEYE (Lyrics by Richard A Lewis & Larry Hayes; Tune "Rawhide" by Dmitri Tiompkin)
Trollin', trollin' trollin'
CHORUS:
Bait 'em up, cast 'em out This gem was recorded by the Hula Poppers (1986, Shadow Records 3355). the Hula Poppers were: Larry Hayes, Jan Stroup, Tom Bremer, James Klein, Rich Lewis, Danny Knowles, Brian Hayes. rich r |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Fountainfox Date: 29 Mar 00 - 08:54 PM Jim Dixon: Yes, that was it. remember it coming on the radio now and then when I was a little kid. Haven;t thought about it in years. |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: dick greenhaus Date: 29 Mar 00 - 08:38 PM If you look for @fish* in DigiTrad, you get 47 hits. |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Banjoman_CO Date: 29 Mar 00 - 08:27 PM Wyogal; I do a song called "The Bold Fisherman". It's kind of a neat song. I'll post the words when I get back. Banjoman |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: GUEST,Jim Dixon Date: 29 Mar 00 - 04:38 PM Fountainfox: Is this the song you had in mind? Gone Fishin' |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Bert Date: 29 Mar 00 - 04:13 PM What was that one from the Fifties? Got no ambition, always goin' fishin I'm a lazy no account boy That's what they tell me That's what they yell me I don't bring my Ma no joy |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Fountainfox Date: 29 Mar 00 - 04:01 PM Roger the Skiffler: Is that 'Gone Fishin'' the one that was on the pop charts in the early fifties that had lines like:
(Can't remember the first line of this set) From my experience I'd say that fishing is great until you DO catch something. Fish guts ain't my style but I like the rest of it.
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Subject: Lyr Add: FISHIN' BLUES (William's Clarke)^^ From: GUEST,Larry Boy Pratt Date: 29 Mar 00 - 03:47 PM Great thread. I'd love to get the lyrics to some of Spaw's contribution. I'll offer William's Clarke's Fishin' Blues.
Lets go fishin', come and go with me. |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Steve Latimer Date: 29 Mar 00 - 03:34 PM Mbo, That song should be on the Blues thread. Brought a tear to my eye. Steve |
Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: jeffp Date: 29 Mar 00 - 02:47 PM Who could forget the classic, "Crabs Walk Sideways, Lobsters Walk Straight?" |
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