Songs About Fishing

Subject: SONGS ABOUT FISHING
From: Lancashire Lad
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 07:08 AM

Hi all
I'm trying to put together a folk compilation for a very good friend and folkie who loves fishing. Can anyone suggest tracks that deal with this popular hobby.
Please note, I'm not looking for tracks that relate to commercial fishing such as "Shoals of herring"

Thanks

LL

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT FISHING
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 07:35 AM

Big Jim was a worm... There was a thread a couple of years back.
Quack!
Geoff the Duck.

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT FISHING
From: GUEST,padgett
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 07:47 AM

I have song from Frank Hinchliffe, trad singer from Sth Yorks about angling, which I have put into singable form , given to me from a tape by Ken Hinchliffe is thsi the sort of thing your looking for?

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT FISHING
From: GUEST, Hamish, no cookie
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 07:51 AM

There's a great C&W song around which talks about how the wonderful girl in the singer's life gives him an ultimatum that'sit's either her or the fishing. It starts all sad, then perks up at the first chorus "I'm gonna miss her..."

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT FISHING
From: Schantieman
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 07:54 AM

Well, of course, the seminal and most wonderful is not traditional - 'Shoals of Herring' by Ewan MacColl. And the rest of 'Singing the Fishing', for that matter.   But not, perhaps, the sort of fishing that you're looking for!

Steve

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT FISHING
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 08:05 AM

'The Bold Fisherman' is about wholly uncommercial fishing and is one of my favourite songs.

Barry Dransfield's 'I once was a Fisherman' has a fantastic tune and is a lament on the decline of the one-man fishing boats on the Sussex coast.

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT FISHING
From: Leadfingers
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 08:41 AM

Then of course there is the usually rather naughty song called either the Lobster or the Codfish which finishes up in the chamberpot.

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT FISHING
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 08:43 AM

Or in the Dugitrad - WHERE THE COHO FLASH SILVER.
Quack!
Geoff.

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT FISHING
From: GUEST,padgett
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 10:01 AM

re 'Bold Fisherman'He wasn't fishing for fish he was fishing for 'disciples' for the inference in this song is that the fisherman is Christ himself (apocraphal) spelt right?
I once ventured an opinion that the lady in question was being approached to be a Nun or Nurse in female company and was nearly lynched

A lovely song

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT FISHING
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 10:12 AM

Eh? Think he was just out 'fishing' as blokes do and had better success than The Outlandish Knight 'cos he had more of a clue of how to behave.

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT FISHING
From: GUEST,Arkie
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 10:33 AM

Some related pieces are Robert Earl Keen's "Five Pound Bass", Pinkard & Bowden's "I Lobster and the I Flounder" (if you want a little nonsense). Junior Samples' whopper about a Whopper is not a song but a humerous diversion for someone interested in fish tales.

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT FISHING
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 10:37 AM

There's a place for us!

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT FISHING
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 10:45 AM

Oh well, if we're getting really silly, 'The Lambton Worm' which is about as authentic as Penshaw Monument, the out-of-scale Parthenon copy on top of the 'Worm Hill'.

As a child, this symbol meant Powley's lemonade which I thought you had to take with you when scrambling up the hill which still has bare patches where the worm is supposed to have wrapped its tail.

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT FISHING
From: GUEST, GEST
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 10:52 AM

How about the always enjoyable Song For The Mira (Out On The Mira)?

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT FISHING
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 07:19 PM

Here's the longest thread we've had on the subject. If you put FISHING in the filter box, and set the time limit to ALL, you'll find some more.

Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS???

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT FISHING
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 07:51 PM

Don't forget "The Blue Tail'd Fly," the English song which was posted 18 Oct 03 07:23 PM in thread 1141, about a fisherman using a blue tailed fly to catch a fish. Blue tail'd Fly
Published between 1813-1838 on a broadside. Is this the oldest song in English about fishing with a fly?

Nothing to do with the American minstrel song!

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT FISHING
From: 8_Pints
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 07:55 PM

'The day we went to Patterdale' as sung by Th'Antiques Road Show!

Bob vG

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT FISHING
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 07:57 PM

"Salmon Run" by Lou Nathanson

"Fishin' for Chickens" by Hobo Jim Varsus

"Fish On" by Robin Hopper

"Salmon Love" and "Halibut" by Mike Campbell

The preceeding songs are all songs written about fishing by Alaskan songwriters. Fishing and songs about fishing don't get better than Alaskan.

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT FISHING
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 08:00 PM

"Gone Fishin'" from the 1940/50's - a crooner song done by quite a few, including Boing Crosby. Slow number.

Robin

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT FISHING
From: Allan C.
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 08:04 PM

Golden Apples of the Sun

Subject: Lyr Add: THE SMELT FISHING GROUND (Mosey Austin)
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 08:10 PM

This ice-fishing song was written about 50 years ago by the late Maurice (Mosey) Austin of Whycocomagh, Cape Breton. The tune is somewhat similar to Betsy from Pike.

THE SMELT FISHING GROUND

When it's smelt fishing time on the lakes of Bras d'Or
With my bamboo rod I’ll go fishing once more.
The sky it was cloudy, but the weather was nice
And the smelts numbered thousands out under the ice.

With Johnny Macdonald and a Micmac named Joe
We three headed out o'er the desert of snow.
As we walked along, John says, "I’ll make a bet;
One dollar I’ll land more than you guys can get."

I took his bet and I looked at old Joe.
He wouldn't say yes, but he wouldn't say no;
Then he lit up his pipe and said with a grin,
"We’ll all know at sundown just who's going to win."

We finally arrived at the smelt fishing ground.
We each dug a hole just perfectly round.
But as time passed onward without any luck,
It was getting quite evident that I’d lose a buck.

It was growing toward evening, and soon time to quit.
John was all smiles, full of laughter and wit;
When Joe made a strike that bent his old rod,
And he reeled up to surface a forty-pound cod.

"That’s a mighty fine fish," says Johnny to Joe,
"But catching that fellow won't win you the dough."
Old Joe he said nothing, just took it in stride,
And with his sharp knife cut the great fellow’s hide.

He opened its belly, and to our surprise,
There was three dozen smelts before our eyes;
And that night as the sun slowly set
Joe collected his two bucks, and went home to rest.

(c) Mosey Austin

Subject: RE: SONGS ABOUT FISHING
From: GUEST,barry
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 08:36 PM

Mike Seegar recorded a comic song about a fisherman, moonshine, and a snake that traded frogs for moonshine. Forget the title tho.

For Greenland Whale Fishery the Waterson's version is great. In this version the captain is not the 'fine little man' as I've heard it sung in the US, but a 'sod of a man', who regretted losing the whale awhole lot more than losing the shipmates.

And Hi Henry thomas first recorded Fishing Blues.

I think Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong did a tune called Gone Fishin'.

Barry

Subject: Lyr Add: IF I HAD KNOWN (Greg Brown)
From: open mike
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 11:20 PM

Greg Brown has a few--in fact I suspect the aforementioned 5 # bass may be his song. Where 2 boys go down Main Street in their P. F. Flyers carrying 2 5-pound bass making grown men liars (because they had said there were not any fish in "there")


IF I HAD KNOWN

A little creek you could spit across
Jimmy and me each took one more toss
Our spinners bright in the evening air
People always said, there ain't no fish in there
Well grownups they ain't always right
Jimmy and me walked home slow that night
Right down Main Street in our P. F. Fliers
With two 5-lb. bass making grown men liars

Jimmy, if I had known--
I might have stopped fishing right then
It's just as well we don't know
When things will never be that good again

A hayride on an autumn night
Well we was 15 if I remember right
We were far apart at the start of the ride
But somehow we ended up side by side
We hit a bump and she grabbed my arm
The night was as cold as her lips were warm
I shivered as her hand held mine
And then I kissed her one more time

And Jane, if I had known--
I might have stopped kissing right then
It's just as well we don't know
When things will never be that good again

She was older than me I guess
Summer was invented for her to wear that dress
I knew about risk and she knew about proof
And that night she took me up on the roof
We could see the lights of the little towns
We could watch the August stars come down
Shooting stars, meteorites--
We went on a ride through the sky that night

And, oh, if I had known--
I'd do it all over again
Some things just get better and better
And better than they've already been


LAUGHING RIVER

I'm goin' away,
'Cause I gotta busted heart.
I'm leavin' today,
If my Travelall will start.
And I reckon where I’m headed,
I might need me different clothes--
Way up in Michigan,
Where the Laughing River flows.

Twenty years in the minor leagues--
Ain't no place I didn't go.
Well I gotta few hits,
But I never made the show.
And I could hang on for a few years,
Doin' what I’ve done before.
I wanna hear the Laughing River,
Flowin' right outside my door.

My cousin Ray,
Said he's got a job for me.
Where the houses are cheap,
And he knows this nice lady.
He said she even saw me play once,
Said she smiled at my name.
Well upon the Laughing River,
Could be a whole new game.

So goodbye to the bus.
Good bye to payin' dues.
Goodbye to the cheers,
And goodbye to the booze.
Well I’m trading in this old bat,
For a fishing pole.
I'm gonna let the Laughing River,
Flow right into my soul.

[Repeat first verse]


FISHING WITH BILL

Man what a winter,
Sorrow wide and deep.
Is it just the media industry or the whole country
That is turning into sheep?
I wanna go to a good place
With a friend of mine,
Cast our souls out in the river
And watch the whole deal shine.
Some little crick in Massachusetts, just over the hill,
Oh I, I’m goin' fishin' with Bill.

Well, Bill, I bet he is a good fly caster.
He grew up on these eastern brooks.
Me, I grew up on the Midwestern cricks
Casting crappie flies for chubs and such.
But in my young imagination,
I watched a number 20 coachman settle down,
Sitting by the stove in that little library
Reading Roderick L. Haig Brown.
I never did fish in Vancouver. I probably never will.
I don't care. I'm goin' fishin' with Bill.

Well, it's a long and noble tradition,
Catching trout on the fly.
When you're done, with the setting of the sun,
Gonna drink a little bourbon if you're dry.
See some folks out on the river,
Cool, scientific and clean.
They look like everything just kinda stuck to them
The last time they walked through ol' L. L. Bean.
My friend, Dave, says the good fishermen are the ones who have fun and we will.
Oh I, I’m goin' fishin' with Bill.

Sittin' in a bar in Brattleboro
Thinkin' about one of his songs.
The rain was pourin' down, and I was pourin' it down,
And all I could do was hum along.
We've talked about goin' fishin' so often
At some party when the gig was done.
Well, life slips by like a little dry fly
Sliding down a deep slick run,
So let us stand steady like an old mill.
Oh I, I’m goin' fishin' with Bill.

Maybe handsome Molly will pass by
As we cast away the hours.
Somewhere on a river somewhere far away
From stupid people in positions of power.
Someday when we ain't folk singers
Flyin' through the friendly skies.
We won't be waiting for the big break
Or anything except the evening rise
On some spring crick in Wisconsin or maybe the Batten Kill.
Oh I, I’m goin' fishin' with Bill.
I'm goin' fishin' with Bill ... um, um, um,
I'm goin' fishin' with Bill ... yes, I am,
I'm goin' fishin' with Bill.

G: Y'know, Bill?
B: Wha? Wha?
G: I think if we just tried a little, some kinda little streamer right over there; go ahead and cast over ...
B: What d'ya got - a blasting cap?
G: See that clump of grass over there ...
B: A number 12 blasting cap ...
G: ... on the other side over there?
B: Yeah, yeah I see that.
G: I have a feelin' there's about a 5 1/2 pound rainbow under one of them ...
B: Ah, 6 ...
G: ... just waitin' for someone to come along ... and catch ...
B: I’ll catch the fish.
G: We need to catch just one trout here, Bill ... just one ...
B: What? Ya hungry?
G: ... 'Cause I’m hungry, I don't know about you ...
B: Well, I’ll catch the fish.
G: I know we're both catch and release guys. I know we believe in that, but if we caught just one trout, we could eat it, couldn't we, so we could sustain ourselves and the beautiful spirit of the trout would become part of us ... and I’m hungry.
B: Ah, ah ...
G: Well, I’m not complainin' 'bout gettin' lost today.
B: We, we weren't lost, Greg, ah ...
G: We've seen a lot of parts of Massachusetts I’ve never seen before; it's not that, it's ...
B: ... the map was broken.
G: ... it's late and we need to catch one trout and put ...
B: ... ok, ok, alright, I’ll ...
G: ... it on the grill if it's ok.
B: alright.

Goin' fishin' with Bill.
Goin' fishin' with Bill.
Goin' fishin' with Bill.

He also has one about fishin' with Bill, and another that mentions "to clean our dirty rivers, now that's a noble wish, I’m putting my shoulder to the wheel cuz I want to catch a fish."


SPRING WIND

I lived awhile without you,
Darn near half my life.
I no longer see our unborn children,
Born to you my unwed wife.
But yesterday I had a vision,
Beneath the tree where we once talked,
Of an old couple burning
Their love letters so their children
Won't be shocked.

[Chorus:]
Love calls like the wild birds--
It's another day.
A spring wind blew my list of
Things to do ... away.

My friends are gettin' older,
So I guess I must be too.
Without their loving kindness,
I don't know what I’d do.
Oh the wine bottle's half empty--
The money's all spent.
And we're a cross between our parents
And hippies in a tent.

[Repeat chorus]

In a mucked up lovely river,
I cast my little fly.
I look at that river and smell it
And it makes me wanna cry.
Oh to clean our dirty planet,
Now there's a noble wish,
And I’m puttin' my shoulder to the wheel
'Cause I wanna catch some fish.

[Repeat chorus]

Children go to sleep now--
You know it's gettin' late.
I know you don't like to miss nothin'
And school ain't that great.
Oh, I’ll dance with you when you're happy,
And hold you when you're sad,
And hope you know how glad I am,
Just to be your dad.

[Repeat chorus]

Darlin' it's been a hard go
But I think we'll be okay.
I know I say that all the time
Like everything else I say.
Oh, I’ve been gone so often,
But every time I miss you,
And I don't really know nothin',
Except I like to kiss you.

[Repeat chorus]


See www.gregbrown.org

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 11:27 PM

Fiddlers Green by W.Connolly

As I walked by the dockside one evening so fair
To view the salt water and take the sea air.
I heard an old fisherman singing a song,
Won't you take me away boys my time is not long.

Chorus

Wrap me up in me oil skins and jumper
No more on the docks I'll be seen.
Just tell me old ship mates I'm taking a trip mates
And I'll see you someday in Fiddlers Green.

Now Fiddlers Green is a place I heard tell
Where fisherman go if they don't go to hell
Where the skies are all clear and the dolphins do play
And the cold coast of greenland is far, far away.

When you get on the docks and the long trip is through
There's pubs and theres clubs and theres lassies there too
Where the girls are all pretty and the beer it is free
And theres bottles of rum growing from every tree

Now I don't want a harp nor a halo, not me
Just give me a breeze and a good rolling sea
I'll play me old squeeze box as we sail along
With the wind in the rigging to sing me a song.

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: Cluin
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 11:50 PM

Susan-Marie popsted the lyrics of a few good spoofy Christmas Carols dealing with fishing last December:

Links found in this thread.

My favourite was "We Wish You Would Clean Our Fish, Miss" (to the tune of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas").

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: Cluin
Date: 04 Feb 04 - 11:51 PM

"popsted"?

Hey, my fingers made up a new word!

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: Cluin
Date: 05 Feb 04 - 10:10 AM

Stan Rogers' "Tiny Fish for Japan" and (sort of) "The Jeannie C"

Gordon Lightfoot's "Bend in the Water" (from his Cold On the Shoulder LP):
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
(maybe it's not really about fishing though....?)

The theme from the Andy Griffith Show "The Fishin' Hole"

David Wilkie had one on his Cowboy Celtic CD: "Tempting the Salmon to Come to the Fly"

One we used to do as a folk song with guitar and bodhran: Billy Joel's "Down Easter Alexa"

Plenty of folks (Doc Watson, Harry Belafonte, Woody Guthrie, Burl Ives I think, etc.) recorded "The Crawdad Song" (You get a line and I'll get a pole, honey...)

And from a box of old yellowed Country & Western Hit Parade magazines we rescued from my grandmother's attic years ago, I found this extra verse from Hank Williams' "Jambalaya" that I'd never heard anybody record:
Gonna settle down, far from town
Get me a pirogue
And I'll catch me all the catfish in the bayou
Swap my mon, to buy my hon
What she need-o
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun
On the bayou
So I always throw that verse in whenever we perform it.

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: Cluin
Date: 05 Feb 04 - 10:16 AM

Oh, and one more really good one I forgot...

Doug McArthur's "Ain't Goin' Home" (which Garnet Rogers also recorded on his Outside Track LP)

And Archie Fisher's "Final Trawl". (also recorded by Garnet. and the Tannahill Weavers recorded a version too)

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Feb 04 - 06:13 PM

The Silver Darlings, "Oh Herrings are harvests the fishermen glean...

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Jan 08 - 02:15 PM

The Song Fiddlers Green has had a difficult history ever since JOHN not W Connolly wrote it that is JOHN CONNOLLY John lost much royalty over the last 30 years particularly when the Irish claim it as traditional and then George Hamilton IV recorded it as trad as well.

I at least give credit where it is due to this wonderfull song. It was 1991 December 9th when in the Soren Larsen we made Cape Horn out of Auckland and sang, Fiddlers Green off the pitch of the Horn along with Bob Watsons Shantyman. When I got home I walked up to John at a gig in Hull, he was bending over his guitar case facing away. I said did you get my card `he replied yes it made my day' he turned and looked up and said`No it made my year yes it made my Year'

Chris Roche square rigged Cape Horner.

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 30 Jan 08 - 02:31 PM

This thread is about recreational fishing (see first post)- a gentlemans' sport. Fiddlers Green and songs about dirty old commercial fishing don't belong

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: Tweed
Date: 30 Jan 08 - 02:38 PM

Don't forget Taj's "Fishin' Blues"

by Taj Mahal
recording of 1992
from Taj's Blues (Columbia/Legacy CK-52465), copyright notice

Betcha goin' fishin' all of your time, baby's goin' fishing too
Bet your life, your sweet life, catch more fish than you
Many fish bites if ya got good bait
Here's a little tip I would like to relate

Big fish bites if ya got a good bait
I 'a goin' fishin'
Yes, I'm goin' fishin'
And my baby's goin' fishin' too

I went down to my favorite fishin' hole
Baby grabbed me a pole and line
Throw my pole on in
Caught a nine pound catfish
now I brought him on home for supper time

Big fish bites if ya got a good bait
I'a goin' fishin'
Yes, I'm goin' fishin'
And my baby's goin' fishin' too

Baby brother 'bout to run me outta my mind
Say can I go fishin' wit' you?
I took him on down to the fishin' hole
now what do you think he did do?
Pulled a great big fish outta the bottom of the pond
And he laughed and jumped 'cause he was real gone

Big fish bites if ya got a good bait
I'a goin' fishin'
Yes, I'm goin' fishin'
And my baby's goin' fishin' too

Put 'em in the pot baby, put 'em in the pan
Honey cook 'em till' they're nice and brown
Make a batch of buttermilk coal cakes mama
And you chew them things
And you chomp 'em on down

Big fish bites if ya got a good bait
I'a goin' fishin'
Yes, I'm goin' fishin'
And my baby's goin' fishin' too

Betcha goin' fishin' all of your time, baby's goin' fishing too
Bet your life, your sweet life, catch more fish than you
Many fish bites if ya got good bait
Here's a little tip I would like to relate

Big fish bites if ya got a good bait
I'a goin' fishin'
Yes, I'm goin' fishin'
And my baby's goin' fishin' too

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Jan 08 - 02:52 PM

I's the boy that builds the boat
And I's the boy that sails her'
I's the boy that catches the fish
And brings them home to Liza...

How about the theme from "Jaws"?

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 30 Jan 08 - 03:05 PM

Taj Mahal- I've got that on lp- have to dig it out.

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: oggie
Date: 30 Jan 08 - 05:17 PM

"The Grimsby Lads" "The Trawling Trade" "The Lumper's Life" "My Old Man" "Men of the Sea" "Harry Eddom" All by John Conolly and/or Bill Meek.

With reference to the latter this is the Fortieth anniversaray of the "Three Trawlers Tragedy" when the St Romanus, Kingston Peridot and Ross Cleveland were lost in Icelandic waters within three weeks. Harry Eddom was the only survivor. Hissyfit's "Luckiest Sailor" (apologies if I've got the name wrong) is about the same event.

Here in Hull the Hull Daily Mail is leading a campaign for a minute's silence on February 5th, the day on which the loss of the Ross Cleveland became known.

Steve

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: GUEST,Black Hawk
Date: 31 Jan 08 - 03:18 AM

Angling Songs

Teaching My Worm to Swim

Slim Dusty
The Only Time a Fisherman Tells the Truth (is when he calls another one a liar)
A Bad Days Fishing (beats a good days work everytime)

Johnny Cash
Dont Go Near the Water Children

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: GUEST,woodsie
Date: 31 Jan 08 - 03:30 AM

Thanks Tweed for the Taj Mahal "Fishin' Blues" lyric! - I had this originally on the b side of a single "Divin' Duck Blues"

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: GUEST,Suffolk Miracle
Date: 31 Jan 08 - 05:51 AM

From I Wish My Love:
I wish my love she was a herring
Swimming in the silver sea.
I'd wish myself to be a fisherman
And I'd reel her back to me.

From Hares on a Mountain:
If all the young girls were fish in the water
Then all the young men would strip off and swim after.

Don't need an angling licence for that apparently!

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: Ian
Date: 31 Jan 08 - 07:12 AM

I remember a snatch of a choras song it was sung and recorded on LP by Paul and Glen from Stoke on Trent. All about a rod and line fisherman, his boat and catching the big one that got away.
The last line being "and then it fell in, to the water.
Ch goes I think.
With a hail and hope and sail of my boat
way out in the open sea
there was just no sound as I looked around,
there was just my boat and me.

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: Tweed
Date: 31 Jan 08 - 07:33 AM

Your welcome woodsie. Taj music is good for what ails you. Like medicine for the soul.

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: GUEST,George Henderson
Date: 31 Jan 08 - 07:55 AM

I have a wonderful recording of Micho Russell singing "Poor little fisherboy so far away from home." Somebody will probably sing it during the festival held in his honour in a couple of weeks or so in Doolin, Co. Clare.

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: GUEST,JohnB
Date: 31 Jan 08 - 11:15 AM

"What will I do with my Herrings(Harrings)Head" Trad I think.
"No More Fish No Fishermen" words Shelley Posen, tune "See amid the Witers Snow" performed by Finest Kind also by Johnny Collins.
"Messing Around on the River" origin?.
JohnB

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: topical tom
Date: 31 Jan 08 - 11:26 AM

A fishing tale
with a moral

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: Charley Noble
Date: 31 Jan 08 - 07:59 PM

I rather like Chris Roche's post above, even if it would be more appropriate to a Fiddler's Green thread. Of course, to understand it you have to know all the characters.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: Beer
Date: 31 Jan 08 - 08:28 PM

Here is a song written by a the late great Hank Snow of Nova Scotia. All about the Grand Banks of Newfoundland.
"Squid Jigging Ground". You can Google for the words.
Great project. There are hundreds out there.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: Gurney
Date: 01 Feb 08 - 01:12 AM

There's a song in the 'Compleat Angler,' (A Treatyss of Fishing with an Angle) written some centuries ago, about English freshwater angling. Boring and only two verses, the guts of it is "Life's a bowl of crap, but we don't care, we go fishing!"
Would be OK done chorally.

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: GUEST,Barnacle (at work)
Date: 01 Feb 08 - 08:32 AM

There's always "The candlelight fisherman"

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: PeadarOfPortsmouth
Date: 01 Feb 08 - 08:48 AM

A fun song is "Lukey's Boat" from Newfoundland. I have it on a compliation of Newfoundland artists, but Great Big Sea does a more commercial version as well.

Cheers,

Peter

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 01 Feb 08 - 10:23 AM

A guy named Alan Cayn did two CDs on recreational fishing (available from CAMSCO of course). And don't forget Jon Campbell's "Keep on Fishing" and his immortal sport-whaling song "Catch and Release".

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: PeadarOfPortsmouth
Date: 01 Feb 08 - 01:28 PM

I forgot (until it just popped up my iPod): "Fishing" by Richard Shindell of his "Blue Divide" album.

He uses fishing as a topic of discussion between a gov't official and a deportee...great song.

Peter

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: peregrina
Date: 01 Feb 08 - 01:31 PM

No mention yet in this thread of 'The Fisher's Farewell to the Coquet'?

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 02 Feb 08 - 04:30 PM

Google The Cod Fish Song for a belter! (The Erotic Muse)

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: GUEST,Obie
Date: 02 Feb 08 - 08:43 PM

Squid Jigging Ground was written by Art Scammel, not Hank Snow, but Snow recorded and sang it.
@displaysong.cfm?SongID=7001

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: Nick E
Date: 02 Feb 08 - 11:16 PM

There is a Tune about my Trouser Trout, and if you do not know it, come close, I'll let you hum a few bars.

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: topical tom
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 12:03 AM

Does this qualify as a song? Probably poetry instead.Old but good though.

Here it is.

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: GUEST,ACORN4
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 06:20 AM

There's a track by Hank Locklin called "We're gonna go fishing" - it charted in the early sixties pre-Beatles - country though, not folk -has Floyd Cramer on piano as they all did at that time.

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: KeithofChester
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 06:44 AM

Richard Shindell's Fishing is a good fishing song.

Richard Shindell - Fishing

That it has another and more sinister narrative too adds to it IMO.

Bill Joel's Downeaster Alexa is a great fishing song and has a "folk" interpretation too.

Downeaster Alexa - Phil Beer

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 08:46 AM

Two John Prine tunes: "Fish and Whistle," and "If I Could"

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: Cuddles
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 12:54 PM

John Tams tender song 'How High The Price' from his CD 'The Reckoning'

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: GUEST,The Mole Catcher's Apprentice
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 02:19 PM

Subject: RE: Songs About Fishing
From: GUEST,The Mole Catcher's Apprentice
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 02:22 PM

ooopps!...that blank was sent by me it too much of a hurry *LOL*

what intended to say was....The Compleat Angler - The Albion Band from their CD, Before Us Stands Yesterday

Charlotte (fishing from Ma and Pa's piano stool)