A Song About Fishing

F# B 4x F# B The mud in my fingers had dried to a crust F# B Sleep in my eyes, I pick my rust F# B My boots have been ravaged in browns and grays, I've G#m B Seen no scales and I've, seen no pay F# B But still I trudge to the spotless stream F# B Not a bird in the sky or a fish in the sea F# B To dwell in these waters is a foolish way G#m B To believe one night, I'll win the day F# B Rise and shine, to dawn I wake F# B To cast my net in a fishless lake F# B Rise and shine, to dawn I wake G#m B Casting my net in a fishless lake F# Each day like a retake B Fisherman inside a sweepstake F# Each day like a retake B Fisherman inside a sweepstake F# Each day like a retake B Fisherman inside a sweepstake G#m Each day like a retake B Fisherman inside a sweepstake F# B I sailed down stream to see what had I F# B Pulled my boat along the land I F# B Swam the dirt, and walked the stream and G#m B Off the shore, I saw a bream and F# B Tuna too, and salmon roe F# B Do my eyes deceive, but my net had broke F# B I told my tale to a merchant man G#m B He pittied me a dollar, and gave me his hand, he said F# B Rise and shine, to dawn I wake F# B To cast my net in a fishless lake F# B Rise and shine, to dawn I wake G#m B Casting my net in a fishless lake F# Each day like a retake B Fisherman inside a sweepstake F# Each day like a retake B Fisherman inside a sweepstake F# Each day like a retake B Fisherman inside a sweepstake G#m Each day like a retake B Fisherman inside a sweepstake F# B Rise and shine, to dawn I wake F# B To cast my net in a fishless lake F# B Rise and shine, to dawn I wake G#m B Casting my net in a fishless lake F# B F# B F# B G#m B (As verse chords repeated to fade out)