Tiny Fish For Japan chords by Stan Rogers

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: A

Difficulty: Novice

Tiny Fish for Japan by Stan Rogers.


Intro:
A E D A D E D

Verse 1:
    A     E    D       A
Where Patterson Creek's muddy waters run down
       D          E     A
Past the penny arcades, by the harbour downtown,
A        D         A
All the old Turtlebacks rust in the rain
      D     E      A
Like they never will leave there again.

Verse 2:
A          E             A
But leave there they will in the hours before dawn,
          D       E     A
Slip out in the darkness without word or song;
   A     D          E       A
For a few more years yet they will work while they can
  D        E   A
To catch tiny fish for Japan.

Verse 3:
 E                D      A
No white fish or trout here, we leave them home
            D          A
The inspectors raise hell if we take any home.
E            D       A
What kind of fisherman can't eat his catch
   D       E     A
Or call what he's taken his own?

Verse 4:
  A             E     D        A
But the plant works three shifts now. There's plenty of pay.
          D       E     A
We ship seventeen tons of this garbage each day
          D        E    A
If we want to eat fish, then we'll open a can,
   D      E     A
And catch tiny fish for Japan.

Verse 5:
 E             D       A
In the Norfolk Hotel over far too much beer,
         D        E     A
The old guys remember when the water ran clear.
E                D      A
No poisons with names that we can't understand
  D      E    A
And no tiny fish for Japan...

Verse 6:
 A         E      D     A
So the days run together. Each one is the same
             D           A
And it's good that the smelt have no lovelier name.
         D       E       A
It's all just a job now, we'll work while we can,
 D        E    A
To catch tiny fish for Japan.
 D         E      A
And we'll catch tiny fish for Japan.