Fish stories
Words and Music Copyright (c) 2003 by Jack Morris
Cover Art Credit: CCO
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Verse 1:
Today I launched out of Venice and trolled
The Wagon Wheel with jigs and pigs
In the cuts and pockets of the dead-end marsh canals
Caught my limit of monster bass
Came home tired cleaned the fish
And stuffed the filets in the freezer
Chorus:
You work to pay
The cost of living
You live to play
You die someday
Get forgiven
But it’s a damned shame about the high cost of fishing
Bridge:
You need a boat motor trailer and a truck to
pull 'em
Fishfinder mobile phone and GPS
Graphite rod and titanium spool
Spinner crank soft and topwater baits
Verse 2:
Once upon a time I'd grab handfuls of earth
Out the worm garden that grew in the yard
Stuff the squirming dirt in a can
Pick a cane pole behind the shed
Walk down Orleans Avenue
To the City Park lagoons and fish till dark
[Repeat Chorus]
[Repeat Bridge]
Verse 3:
The water was black and deep then
Swimming with bream and cats and crappie galore
And the possibility of a green flash
The phenomenal churn yank and splash
Of a monster bass erupting
Like a green god out of black water
[Repeat Chorus]
Coda:
It’s a damned shame about the high cost
A damned shame about the high cost
A damned shame about the high cost of fishing
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