Tiny Fish for Japan Chords & Lyrics by Stan Rogers

Tiny Fish for Japan

guitar chords lyrics

Stan Rogers

Tiny Fish for Japan by Stan Rogers.

These are the chords I use when playing this song;

G Am D Em7 Cadd9 D4

E String - 3 0 2 3 3 3
B String - 3 1 3 3 3 3
G String - 0 2 2 0 0 2
D String - 0 2 0 2 2 0

A String - 2 0 0 2 3 0
E String - 3 0 X 0 0 X


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G Am D Em7
Where Patterson Creek's muddy waters run down
Cadd9 G Am D
Past the penny arcades, by the harbour downtown,
Em7 Am D Em7
All the old Turtlebacks rust in the rain
Cadd9 D G
Like they never will leave there again.
G Am D Em7
But leave there they will in the hours before dawn,
Cadd9 G Am D
Slip out in the darkness without word or song;
Em7 Am D Em7
For a few more years yet they will work while they can
Cadd9 D G
To catch tiny fish for Japan.

D D Cadd9 G
No white fish or trout here, we leave them alone.
Cadd9 G Am D
The inspectors raise hell if we take any home.
D D Cadd9 G
What kind of fisherman can't eat his catch
Em7 D4 D
Or call what he's taken his own?

G Am D Em7
But the plant works three shifts now. There's plenty of pay.
Cadd9 G Am D
We ship seventeen tons of this garbage each day.
Em7 Am D Em7
If we want to eat fish, then we'll open a can,
Cadd9 D G
And catch tiny fish for Japan.

D D Cadd9 G
In the Norfolk Hotel there's far too much beer,
Cadd9 G Am D
The old guys remember when the water ran clear.
D D Cadd9 G
No poisons with names that we can't understand
Em7 D4 D
And no tiny fish for Japan...

G Am D Em7
So the days run together. Each one is the same.
Cadd9 G Am D
And it's good that the smelt have no lovelier name.
Em7 Am D Em7
It's all just a job now, we'll work while we can,
Cadd9 D G
To catch tiny fish for Japan.
Cadd9 D G
And we'll catch tiny fish for Japan.