I went down to the fishing hole,
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And I set down with my fishing pole;
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Somethin' grabb'd my hook and it got my bait
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And Jerked me out in the middle of the lake.
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Huh it was some jump boy,
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I got sunk, kinda baptized on credit.
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Fishin' down on th' muddy bank,
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Felt a pull an' give a big yank,
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I drug out three old rubber boots,
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A Ford radiator an' a Chevrolet coop
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(Nothin' but Junk, so I handed it in
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For National Defence).
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Settin' in a boat with a bucket of beer,
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Hadn't caught nuthin' but didn't much care,
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I guess I was pretty well satisfied,
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Had my little woman right by my side
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(Takin' it easy, just waitin'
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Worm been gone off-a that hook for a couple of hours.
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I was busy).
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When you go fishin', tell y' what to do,
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Go set down by the grassy dew,
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Take a piece of string, tie it on yo' pole,
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Throw it way out in th' middle of th' hole.
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Find you a good shady tree and then just set down.
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(Go to sleep, forget all about it
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Can't catch nuthin' here anyways.)
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Well I walked out to a sandy bar,
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And I caught myself a big alligator gar,
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Drug him home across my back,
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Tail was dragging a mile and a half,
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Flippin' an' floppin'. I sold him for a quarter.
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(Shot craps, got in Jall.)
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Jumped in the river and went down deep,
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There was a hundred pound cat-fish lying there asleep,
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Well I jumped on his back and rode him all aroun'
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Saddled him up and I came into town.
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People came runnin', lookin', dogs a-barkin'
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(Kids a-squallin').
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Early one mornin' I took me a notion,
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To go out fishin' in the middle of the ocean,
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Well, throwed me a line, I got me a shark,
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I didn't get him home till way past dark.
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(Was he a man-eater, tough customer.
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But he wasn't quite tough enough.)
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Late last night I had me a dream,
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I was out fishin' in a whiskey stream,
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Baited my hook with apple-jack,
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Threw out a drink, drug a gallon back.
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(Done pretty good till the creek run dry.
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I give the fish back to the finance company.)
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Talking Fishing Blues
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Woody Guthrie |