Talking Fish Blues Lyrics

The song Talking Fish Blues is performed by Woody Guthrie in the album named Some Folk in the year 2006 .



I went down to the fishing hole,
And I set down with my fishing pole;
Somethin' grabb'd my hook and it got my bait
And Jerked me out in the middle of the lake.
Huh it was some jump boy,
I got sunk, kinda baptized on credit.

Fishin' down on th' muddy bank,
Felt a pull an' give a big yank,
I drug out three old rubber boots,
A Ford radiator an' a Chevrolet coop
(Nothin' but Junk, so I handed it in
For National Defence).

Settin' in a boat with a bucket of beer,
Hadn't caught nuthin' but didn't much care,
I guess I was pretty well satisfied,
Had my little woman right by my side
(Takin' it easy, just waitin'
Worm been gone off-a that hook for a couple of hours.
I was busy).

When you go fishin', tell y' what to do,
Go set down by the gra*sy dew,
Take a piece of string, tie it on yo' pole,
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
Can't catch nuthin' here anyways.)

Well I walked out to a sandy bar,
And I caught myself a big alligator gar,
Drug him home across my back,
Tail was dragging a mile and a half,
Flippin' an' floppin'. I sold him for a quarter.
(Shot craps, got in Jall.)

Jumped in the river and went down deep,
There was a hundred pound cat-fish lying there asleep,
Well I jumped on his back and rode him all aroun'
Saddled him up and I came into town.
People came runnin', lookin', dogs a-barkin'
(Kids a-squallin').

Early one mornin' I took me a notion,
To go out fishin' in the middle of the ocean,
Well, throwed me a line, I got me a shark,
I didn't get him home till way past dark.
(Was he a man-eater, tough customer.
But he 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, drug a gallon back.
(Done pretty good till the creek run dry.
I give the fish back to the finance company.)



Woody Guthrie - Some Folk

Sep 2006

  1. Lost Train Blues
  2. Railroad Blues
  3. Old Joe Clark/Beaumont Rag
  4. Greenback Dollar
  5. Boll Weevil Song
  6. So Long It's Been Good to Know You
  7. Talking Dust Bowl Blues
  8. Do-Re-Mi
  9. Hard Times
  10. Pretty Boy Floyd
  11. They Laid Jesus Christ In His Grave
  12. Jolly Banker
  13. I Ain't Got No Home
  14. Dirty Overalls
  15. Chain Around My Leg
  16. Worried Man Blues
  17. Goin' Down That Road Feeling Bad
  18. Dust Storm Disaster
  19. Foggy Mountain Top
  20. Dust Pneumonia Blues
  21. California Blues
  22. Dust Bowl Refugee
  23. Will Rogers Highway
  24. Los Angeles New Year's Flood
  25. The Great Dust Storm
  26. Talkin' Dust Bowl Blues
  27. Pretty Boy Floyd
  28. Dusty Old Dust
  29. Dust Bowl Blues
  30. Blowin' Down this Road
  31. Tom Joad Part 1
  32. Tom Joad Part 2
  33. Do Re Mi
  34. Dust Bowl Refugee
  35. I Ain't Got No Home
  36. Vigilante Man
  37. Dust Can't Kill Me
  38. Dust Pneumonia Blues
  39. Oregon Trail
  40. Roll On Columbia
  41. New Found Land
  42. Talking Columbia
  43. Roll Columbia Roll
  44. Columbia's Waters
  45. Ramblin' Blues
  46. It Takes A Married Man To Sing A Worried Song
  47. Hard Travelin'
  48. The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done
  49. Grand Coulee Dam
  50. Song Of The Coulee Dam
  51. Jackhammer Blues
  52. Washington Talkin' Blues
  53. Ramblin' Round
  54. Pastures Of Plenty
  55. The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done
  56. End Of The Line
  57. I Ride An Old Paint
  58. House Of The Rising Sun
  59. Hard Ain't It Hard
  60. The Dodger Song
  61. Ida Red
  62. Muleskinner Blues
  63. What Are We Waiting On
  64. Ship In the Sky
  65. The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done
  66. Talking Sailor (Talking Merchant Marine)
  67. New York Town
  68. Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet
  69. Chisolm Trail
  70. Sowing On The Mountain
  71. Sally Don't You Grieve
  72. Philadelphia Lawyer
  73. Little Darling (At My Window Sad And Lonely)
  74. Baltimore To Washington
  75. Bed On The Floor
  76. Dead Or Alive (Poor Lazarus)
  77. Billy The Kid
  78. Stackolee
  79. Take A Whiff On Me
  80. Buffalo Gals
  81. Ride Around Little Doggies (I Ride An Old Paint)
  82. Talking Fish Blues
  83. Jesse James
  84. Sinking Of The Reuben James
  85. When The Great Ship Went Down
  86. Stepstone
  87. Hobo's Lullaby
  88. Slipknot (Hangknot Slipknot)
  89. Go Tell Aunt Rhody
  90. When the Yanks Go Marching In
  91. Keep My Skillet Good And Greasy
  92. Little Black Train
  93. Gypsy Davy
  94. Cowboy Waltz
  95. 1913 Massacre
  96. Ludlow Massacre
  97. Ramblin' Round
  98. When the Curfew Blows
  99. New Found Land

Talking Fish Blues