所属专辑:100 Essential Folk Classics
歌手: Woody Guthrie
时长: 03:05
Talking Fish Blues - Woody Guthrie[00:00:00]
I went down to the fishing hole[00:00:04]
And I set down with my fishing pole[00:00:06]
Something grabbed my hook and it got my bait[00:00:09]
And it jerked me out in the middle of the lake[00:00:11]
Some jump I got sunk[00:00:14]
Baptized on credit[00:00:18]
Fishing down on the muddy bank[00:00:22]
Felt a pull and give a big yank[00:00:24]
I hauled out three old rubber boots[00:00:26]
And a Ford radiator and a Chevrolet coupe[00:00:28]
Handed it in for National Defence[00:00:31]
Setting in a boat with a bucket of beer[00:00:35]
And I hadn't caught nothing but I didn't much care[00:00:37]
I guess I was pretty well satisfied[00:00:39]
I had my little lady right by my side[00:00:41]
Taking it easy just a-waiting[00:00:44]
Worm been gone off that hook for couple hours[00:00:50]
You go fishing I'll tell you what to do[00:00:56]
You go set down by the grassy slough[00:00:58]
Take a piece of string and tie it on your pole[00:01:01]
And throw it way out in the middle of the hole[00:01:03]
Find you a good shade tree and then just set down[00:01:07]
Go to sleep forget all about it[00:01:11]
Jumped in the river and went down deep[00:01:17]
There was a hundred pound catfish lying there asleep[00:01:19]
Jumped on his back and rode him into town[00:01:22]
Saddled him up and I come to town[00:01:25]
People came running looking[00:01:28]
Dogs a-barking kids a-squalling[00:01:32]
Stagnate water's a stinking thing[00:01:38]
Slick on top and all turned green[00:01:40]
When the water goes bad the fish all run[00:01:44]
Sit all day and not catch a-one[00:01:46]
Cept old rubber boots you gots[00:01:49]
Few little suckers[00:01:54]
I waded out to a sandy bar[00:01:56]
And I caught myself a big alligator gar[00:01:58]
Brung him home across my back[00:02:00]
Tail was dragging a mile and a half[00:02:02]
Flipping and flopping[00:02:06]
Sold him for a quarter[00:02:07]
Shot craps got in jail[00:02:10]
Early one morning I took me a notion[00:02:19]
To go out a-fishing in the middle of the ocean[00:02:20]
Throwed out my line I caught me a shark[00:02:23]
I didn't get him home til way past dark[00:02:25]
He a man-eater tough customer[00:02:28]
Just wasn't quite tough enough[00:02:33]
Late last night I had me a dream[00:02:38]
I was out fishing in a whiskey stream[00:02:40]
Baited my hook with apple-jack[00:02:43]
Threw out a drink and bring a gallon back[00:02:46]
Done pretty good til the creek run dry[00:02:50]
So I gave my fish back to the finance company[00:02:55]