Woody Guthrie - Talking Fishing Blues Lyrics

Lyrics Talking Fishing Blues - Woody Guthrie



I went down to the fishing hole
And I set down with my fishing pole
Something grabbed my hook and it got my bait
And it jerked me out in the middle of the lake
Some jump, I got sunk
Baptized on credit
Fishing down on the muddy bank
Felt a pull and give a big yank
I hauled out three old rubber boots
And a Ford radiator and a Chevrolet coupe
Handed it in for National Defence
Settin′ in a boat with a bucket of beer
And I hadn't caught nothin′ but I didn't much care
I guess I was pretty well satisfied
I had my little lady right by my side
Takin' it easy. just a-waitin′
Worm been gone off that hook for couple hours
When you go fishin′, I'll tell you what to do
You go set down by the grassy slough
Take a piece of string and tie it on your pole
And throw it way out in the middle of the hole
Find you a good shade tree and then just set down
Go to sleep, forget all about it
Jumped in the river and went down deep
There was a hundred pound catfish lying there asleep
Jumped on his back and rode him into town
Saddled him up and I come to town
People came runnin′, lookin'
Dogs a-barkin′, kids a-squallin'
Stagnate water′s a stinkin' thing
Slick on top and all turned green
When the water goes bad, the fish all run
Sit all day and not catch a-one
'Cept?,?
Few little suckers
I waded out to a sandy bar
And I caught myself a big alligator gar
Brung him home across my back
Tail was dragging a mile and a half
Flippin′ and floppin′
Sold him for a quarter
Shot craps, got in jail
Early one mornin', I took me a notion
To go out a-fishin′ in the middle of the ocean
Throwed out my line, I caught me a shark
I didn't get him home ′til way past dark
He a man-eater, tough customer
Just wasn't quite tough enough
Late last night I had me a dream
I was out fishin′ in a whiskey stream
Baited my hook with apple-jack
Threw out a drink and bring a gallon back
Done pretty good 'til the creek run dry
So I gave my fish back to the finance company



Writer(s): Woodie Guthrie


Woody Guthrie - Iconic Folk Legends
Album Iconic Folk Legends
date of release
05-06-2012

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3 Pick A Bale Of Cotton
4 California Blues
5 Red River
6 Rock Me Momma
7 Chain Gang Special
8 Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
9 This Land is Your Land
10 Silver Dagger
11 Blowin' Down This Road
12 House of the Rising Sun
13 Buffalo Skinners
14 Cumberland Gap
15 Wildwood Flower
16 Do Re Mi
17 Plaisir D'amour
18 Goin' Down That Road Feeling Bad
19 Banks of the Ohio
20 Grand Coulee Dam
21 Barbara Allen
22 Hard Travelin'
23 Fare Thee Well
24 Hard, Ain't It Hard
25 Water Boy
26 I Ain't Got No Home
27 Sail Away Ladies
28 John Henry
29 Old Blue
30 More Pretty Girls Than One
31 Wagoner's Lad
32 Poor Boy
33 Island In the Sun
34 Pretty Boy Floyd
35 Don't Weep After Me
36 So Long, It's Been Good to Know You
37 Every Night
38 Talking Dust Bowl Blues
39 Donna Donna
40 Vigilante Man
41 Young Blood
42 Worried Man Blues
43 Once I Knew a Pretty Girl
44 Jesse James
45 Kitty
46 East Virginia
47 Dust Bowl Blues
48 All My Trials
49 Foggy Mountain Top
50 Annie Had a Baby
51 The Great Dust Storm
52 Engine 143
53 Hobo's Lullaby
54 Dark As a Dungeon
55 Little Darling
56 John Riley
57 Told My Captain
58 Stackolee
59 Lonesome Road
60 The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done
61 Mary Hamilton
62 Ramblin' Round
63 The Cherry Tree Carol
64 When the Yanks Go Marching In
65 New York Town
66 Girl of Constant Sorrow
67 Dust Bowl Refugee
68 What You Gonna Call Your Pretty Little Baby
69 Talking Fishing Blues
70 Henry Martin
71 Man Smart, Woman Smarter
72 Dusty Old Dust
73 Pal of Mine
74 Bed On the Floor
75 Silkie
76 Scarlet Ribbons
77 New Found Land
78 Careless Love
79 Rake And Rambling Boy
80 Sowing On the Mountain
81 The Trees They Do Grow High
82 Oh Freedom
83 I Ride an Old Paint
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85 Lowlands
86 I Gave My Love a Cherry
87 Dust Pneumonia Blues
88 O What a Beautiful City
89 Dust Storm Disaster
90 So Soon in the Morning
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