Talking Fishing Blues

Talking Fishing Blues - Woody Guthrie (伍迪·格思裏)/Cisco Houston

Written by：Guthrie

I went down to the fishing hole

And I set down with my fishing pole

Something grabb'd my hook and it got my bait

And jerked me out in the middle of the lake

Some jump

I got sunk baptized on credit

Fishing down on th' muddy bank

Felt a pull an' give a big yank

I holed out three old rubber boots

A ford radiator an' a Chevrolet coop

I handed it in

For national defence

Setting in a boat with a bucket of beer

Hadn't caught nutting but didn't much care

I guess I was pretty well satisfied

Had my little lady right by my side

Taking it easy yeah still waiting

Worm been gone off a that hook for a couple of hours

You go Fishing tell y' what to do

Go set down by the grassy dew

Take a piece of string tie it on yo' pole

And throw it way out in th' middle of th' hole

Find you a good shady 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 cat fish lying there asleep

I jumped on his back and rode him all around

Saddled him up and I came into town

People came running looking dogs a barking

Kids a squalling

Stagnate water's a stinking 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

Mud wallopers jewgars

A 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

Flipping and flopping

Sold him for a quarter

Shot craps got in jail

Early one morning I took me a notion

To go out a Fishing 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's man eater tough customer

Just wasn't quite tough enough

Last last night I had me a dream

I was out Fishing in a whiskey stream

Baited my hook with apple jack

Threw out a drink ** a gallon back

Done pretty good till the creek run dry

I give the fish back to the finance company