Tiny Fish For Japan chords by Stan Rogers

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: A augmentedA

Difficulty: Novice

Tiny Fish for Japan by Stan Rogers.


Intro:
A augmentedA E MajorE D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD E MajorE D MajorD

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

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

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

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

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

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