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29 Mar 00 - 10:24 AM (#203209) Subject: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: WyoWoman It's that time of year. I have a river in my backyard and a mystery pal just put a new Browning casting rod and reel on my desk. I still have to buy, as Beanster says, the peripherals (I say about $500 worth of fishie tchotchkes) and, well, learn to fish. But I feel I ought to have some good fishing songs to speed me on my way. I can't at this point think of a single one, except "Down in the meadow in an itty, bitty pool ...." Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? ww |
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29 Mar 00 - 10:28 AM (#203215) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Art Thieme "Greenland Whale Fisheries" as done by the Weavers. ;-) Art |
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29 Mar 00 - 10:29 AM (#203219) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Bing & Louis (aka GOD in my book):"Gone fishin' ".BTW hasn't there been a recent thread on this or has my deja vue met my premonition and cancelled out? Haven't fished much since childhood, but it's great therapy even if you never catch any thing isn't it! RtS |
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29 Mar 00 - 10:44 AM (#203227) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: MMario well - it's not a fishing song, but it is fishy....what about "Virgin Sturgeon"? |
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29 Mar 00 - 10:48 AM (#203231) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Jon W. You get a line and I'll get a pole, baby (3x) We'll go fishing in a crawdad hole, uhm, baby, yeah. |
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29 Mar 00 - 10:52 AM (#203233) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Homeless My 4y.o. daughter highly recommende Taj Mahal's Fishin' Blues. Roger - your sense of deja vu serves you well. blue clicky |
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29 Mar 00 - 10:56 AM (#203238) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Mbo I like "Fishin' In The Dark" by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. --Mbo |
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29 Mar 00 - 11:30 AM (#203267) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: catspaw49 "Don't Be Koi" "Come On Baby, Wet My Worm" "Your Shellfishness" "Bass in Open C" "Please Don't Cut My Bait" "Elmer's Tuna" "Blowfishin' in the Waves" "Let It Be Sea" "Grouper Hooters" "Take This Eel and Shove It" "That's A Moray" "Don't Want Your Crabs Anymore" "You Might Think Its a Gar, But Its Crappie" "Gefilte Fish on a Stick"(a Jewish version of "Lollipop") "Ballad of the Creamed Filets" "My Herrings Gone Bad" "I Wanna' Go Fishin' In Your Hole" .......just to name a few. Spaw
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29 Mar 00 - 11:39 AM (#203271) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Amos Geez, you ARE in rare form, 'Spaw. I'm a goin' fishing, let's go fishin, You kin come a fishin' too! And You get a line an' I'll get a pole, honey You get a line and I'll get a pole, Meet you down at that crawdad hole Honey, baby o' mine... are fragments in mind -- make good hummin' on your way songs. Now, is that the best and greatest use of WW's humming? Dunno ... ask her! A |
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29 Mar 00 - 12:07 PM (#203288) Subject: Lyr Add: I LOBSTER AND NEVER FLOUNDER^^ From: Mbo Gefilte fish on a stick! Spaw, yer a RIOT!!! Wait till I tell the fam... Calamari in The Shade That Smelt One Two Baccala My Shoe Sorry, Italian fish joke... Here's one of MY favorites, a CLASSIC country song from the early 80's: I LOBSTER AND NEVER FLOUNDER^^ I was a cook and she was a waitress Down at the Salty Dog Seafood Cafe And somewhere 'tween the clam juice and the seaweed salad Some little shrimp just lured her away Oh I lobster and never flounder He wrapped his line around her And they drove off in his carp Oh I lobster and never flounder I octopus his face in, he'll only break her heart. I said just squid and leave me for that piano tuna If you want to trout something new She was the bass I ever had, now my life has no porpoise Oh my cod I love her yes I do Oh I lobster and never flounder He wrapped his line around her And they drove off in his carp Oh I lobster and never flounder I octopus his face in, he'll only break her heart. Spoken: Frankly scallop, I don't give a clam! --Mbo
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29 Mar 00 - 02:47 PM (#203396) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: jeffp Who could forget the classic, "Crabs Walk Sideways, Lobsters Walk Straight?" |
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29 Mar 00 - 03:34 PM (#203414) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Steve Latimer Mbo, That song should be on the Blues thread. Brought a tear to my eye. Steve |
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29 Mar 00 - 03:47 PM (#203418) Subject: Lyr Add: FISHIN' BLUES (William's Clarke)^^ From: GUEST,Larry Boy Pratt Great thread. I'd love to get the lyrics to some of Spaw's contribution. I'll offer William's Clarke's Fishin' Blues.
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29 Mar 00 - 04:01 PM (#203428) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Fountainfox 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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29 Mar 00 - 04:13 PM (#203436) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Bert 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 |
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29 Mar 00 - 04:38 PM (#203446) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: GUEST,Jim Dixon Fountainfox: Is this the song you had in mind? Gone Fishin' |
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29 Mar 00 - 08:27 PM (#203586) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Banjoman_CO 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 |
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29 Mar 00 - 08:38 PM (#203595) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: dick greenhaus If you look for @fish* in DigiTrad, you get 47 hits. |
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29 Mar 00 - 08:54 PM (#203612) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Fountainfox 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. |
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29 Mar 00 - 09:06 PM (#203627) Subject: Lyr Add: Walleye^^ From: raredance 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 |
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29 Mar 00 - 09:16 PM (#203634) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Caitrin 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! |
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29 Mar 00 - 09:26 PM (#203643) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: raredance 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 |
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29 Mar 00 - 09:48 PM (#203660) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: raredance 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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29 Mar 00 - 10:35 PM (#203692) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Mbo Does "The Shoals of Herring" count? **Ducks to avoid flying fish offal** --Mbo |
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30 Mar 00 - 12:16 AM (#203738) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: BlueSage 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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30 Mar 00 - 12:27 AM (#203742) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: WyoWoman 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 |
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30 Mar 00 - 02:16 AM (#203763) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: fox4zero "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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30 Mar 00 - 09:44 AM (#203860) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: GUEST,malcolm ross Shoals of herring written by Ewan Macoll ///well your up on deck-you're a fisherman you can swear and show a manly bearing |
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30 Mar 00 - 10:31 AM (#203872) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: catspaw49 "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 |
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30 Mar 00 - 10:38 AM (#203876) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Steve Latimer "Spaw, Therapy my boy, therapy. (Although I liked a Koi Named Sue) |
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30 Mar 00 - 12:05 PM (#203944) Subject: Lyr Add: SMALL FRY (Loesser/Carmichael)^^ From: GUEST,Jim Dixon 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 |
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30 Mar 00 - 12:12 PM (#203951) Subject: Lyr Add: BIGGER FISH TO FRY (Woodson/Compton...)^^ From: GUEST,Jim Dixon (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 |
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30 Mar 00 - 12:37 PM (#203972) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: DADGBE 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!! |
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30 Mar 00 - 06:22 PM (#204204) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: fox4zero 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 |
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31 Mar 00 - 01:53 AM (#204427) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: WyoWoman 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 |
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31 Mar 00 - 03:37 AM (#204447) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler 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 |
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31 Mar 00 - 04:03 PM (#204726) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: GUEST,campcook@webtv.net Try that song moonshine runner by evan johns and the h-bombs it is not it sound like it is about fishing |
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31 Mar 00 - 11:14 PM (#204888) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: The Beanster Wyo Woman, All these fishie songs ought to last you for years to come! Unbelievable, these 'Catters. Catch us a sockeye!
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31 Mar 00 - 11:31 PM (#204899) Subject: Lyr Add: Catfish^^ From: GUEST,Frankie 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 |
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01 Apr 00 - 03:22 AM (#204979) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: WyoWoman 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 |
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01 Apr 00 - 03:28 AM (#204984) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: The Beanster Yummy!! All we have here (NYC) are giant mutant sea monkeys in the East River. Send me some fish sticks! (crunch crunch) |
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01 Apr 00 - 04:19 PM (#205256) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Joan 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 |
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02 Apr 00 - 08:30 AM (#205569) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: GUEST,Frankie ...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 |
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28 Apr 00 - 05:49 PM (#219725) Subject: Lyr Add: I CAUGHT A KEEPER (Mike Dowling)^^ From: Jim Dixon 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 |
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29 Apr 00 - 03:37 PM (#220085) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: WyoWoman Thanks, Jim. That's a nice one. WW |
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30 Apr 00 - 05:31 AM (#220309) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: GUEST,chanteyranger 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. |
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30 Apr 00 - 11:35 AM (#220373) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: GUEST,winniemih 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. |
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30 Apr 00 - 12:16 PM (#220392) Subject: Lyr Add: ANGLER'S SONG (Isaak Walton, Henry Lawes) From: Ditchdweller How about this oldie from the 1660s? THE ANGLER'S SONG
Man's life is but vain,
But we'll take no care,
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12 Sep 02 - 10:10 AM (#782014) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Jim Dixon WE'RE GONNA GO FISHIN' (posted here), written by Tex Atchison, recorded by Hank Locklin and by Spade Cooley. |
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12 Sep 02 - 12:04 PM (#782136) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: GUEST,boromir 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. |
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12 Sep 02 - 01:17 PM (#782205) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Airto Lazybones, sleeping in the sun... |
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12 Sep 02 - 01:18 PM (#782207) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Airto ...and when you go fishin, I'll bet you keep wishin the fish don't bite your line... |
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12 Sep 02 - 01:42 PM (#782224) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Jim Dixon THE IMPORTANT PART OF FISHIN' by Tim Bays. There is a somewhat different version earlier in the thread. |
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12 Sep 02 - 01:57 PM (#782232) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Jim Dixon 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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12 Sep 02 - 04:38 PM (#782360) Subject: Lyr Add: BEND IN THE WATER (Gordon Lightfoot) From: SharonA "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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12 Sep 02 - 04:57 PM (#782378) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Deda 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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12 Sep 02 - 05:00 PM (#782382) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Deda My mistake, the DT versions of Life gets teejus don't show any mention. NEver mind. |
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13 Sep 02 - 02:37 PM (#783229) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Allan Dennehy If theres so many fish in the sea Then why do I always get crabs? |
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13 Sep 02 - 02:39 PM (#783232) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Amos Maybe you're looking for love in all the wrong places, buddy! :>) A |
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14 Sep 02 - 03:02 AM (#783699) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: GUEST,Boab 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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14 Sep 02 - 11:03 AM (#783809) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Marc "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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14 Sep 02 - 08:50 PM (#784134) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Genie 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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14 Sep 02 - 11:35 PM (#784195) Subject: Lyr Add: THE BOLD FISHERMAN From: GUEST,Bman 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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15 Sep 02 - 12:25 AM (#784213) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: The Pooka "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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15 Sep 02 - 12:35 AM (#784214) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: GUEST THREE LITTLE FISHIES : Three Little Fishies |
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15 Sep 02 - 01:14 AM (#784219) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Rustic Rebel 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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15 Sep 02 - 03:37 AM (#784233) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Genie 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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15 Sep 02 - 03:44 AM (#784235) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Genie 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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15 Sep 02 - 05:42 AM (#784256) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: GUEST,Salty reel 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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15 Sep 02 - 08:42 PM (#784735) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: GUEST,Guest wdyat24 How 'bout "Squid Jiggin' Ground?" I just heard Richard Shindell's "Fishing." Now there's a new twist. wdyat24 |
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04 Feb 04 - 07:59 PM (#1109599) Subject: RE: Help: KNOW ANY FISHING SONGS??? From: Q (Frank Staplin) "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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05 Feb 04 - 09:56 AM (#1109937) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: GUEST Silver Darlings '... Oh Herrings are harvest that fishermen glean..' |
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05 Feb 04 - 12:33 PM (#1110054) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: Leadfingers 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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02 May 05 - 02:23 AM (#1476251) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: GUEST,REDice555 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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02 May 05 - 10:52 AM (#1476443) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: Scotus 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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02 May 05 - 11:38 AM (#1476483) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: GUEST,MTflyfisher My favorite is "Winken, Blinken and Nod" Eugene Field/Carly Simon. "Going out fishing for the herring fish..." |
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03 May 05 - 11:01 AM (#1477049) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: GUEST 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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03 May 05 - 11:37 AM (#1477078) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: Girl Friday Trevor has written a fishing song. PM me and I will try nd get he words from him |
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03 May 05 - 01:07 PM (#1477156) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: The Unicorn Man 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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23 Apr 06 - 12:15 PM (#1725354) Subject: Lyr Add: YANKIN' ON MY YOHNSON (Warren Nelson) From: Jim Dixon 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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23 Apr 06 - 04:19 PM (#1725513) Subject: Fishing Songs - Brad Paisley From: Genie 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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23 Apr 06 - 04:22 PM (#1725516) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: Genie 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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24 Apr 06 - 03:31 AM (#1725822) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: Lancashire Lad 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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24 Apr 06 - 07:07 PM (#1726426) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: Big Jim from Jackson 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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25 Apr 06 - 04:49 AM (#1726704) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: Cats at Work 'Last Fisherman' and 'Cheap Boats' by Jon Heslop. I love 'Taking My Oyster for Walkies'! |
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12 Apr 10 - 02:48 PM (#2884963) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: GUEST,beej new posting youtube fly fishers' dream BJ MacLean |
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12 Apr 10 - 03:52 PM (#2884995) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego "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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13 Apr 10 - 11:13 AM (#2885602) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: Charmion The Squid-Jiggin' Ground? |
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13 Apr 10 - 11:21 AM (#2885610) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: GUEST,Ken Brock 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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13 Apr 10 - 07:29 PM (#2885956) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: Artful Codger 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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14 Apr 10 - 01:05 PM (#2886532) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: GUEST,pattyClink Three Fishers The Boys of Killybegs The Queen of Connemara |
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14 Apr 10 - 01:56 PM (#2886569) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: Alan Day 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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15 Apr 10 - 01:37 PM (#2887329) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: GUEST,Erich 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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24 May 10 - 02:13 AM (#2912932) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: GUEST I would like to know who sings pass it on and draggin on the bottom and boat butt please |
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14 Sep 10 - 04:45 PM (#2986798) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: GUEST,carmencita 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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14 Sep 10 - 11:24 PM (#2986968) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: GUEST,Vicki Kelsey How about John Prine's "Whistle and Fish"? "And we'll whistle and go fishin' in Heaven." |
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15 Sep 10 - 02:36 AM (#2987013) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: open mike 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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15 Sep 10 - 12:16 PM (#2987302) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: bluerabbit10 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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10 Oct 10 - 07:25 AM (#3003675) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: GUEST 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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10 Oct 10 - 09:35 AM (#3003712) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: maeve Mr. Kurkosky's link |
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11 Oct 10 - 12:13 AM (#3004210) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: JB3 Yea Ho Little Fish is in the data-base. It's a lovely little song, sometimes used as a lullaby. |
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11 Oct 10 - 12:57 PM (#3004545) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: The Sandman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peA18SO9afU farewell to the humber and dogger |
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14 May 15 - 04:09 PM (#3708922) Subject: Lyr Add: FISHERMAN'S LUCK (from Dixon Brothers) From: Jim Dixon 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.) |
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14 May 15 - 09:03 PM (#3708957) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: GUEST,mg 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. |
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14 May 15 - 09:23 PM (#3708960) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: olddude Way cool congrats |
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15 May 15 - 03:14 AM (#3708977) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: eftifino 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 |
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11 Jul 18 - 11:49 PM (#3936794) Subject: Lyr Add: CATFISH (from Chris Smither) From: Jim Dixon 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? |
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12 Jul 18 - 01:18 AM (#3936801) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: Jim Carroll 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 |
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12 Jul 18 - 02:33 AM (#3936804) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: r.padgett 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 |
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12 Jul 18 - 09:12 AM (#3936863) Subject: RE: Help: Know Any Fishing Songs??? From: Gutcher 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. |