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.