Fish Song - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Written by：Jimmie Fadden

Sat here by this stony brook until

The grey day turned to dust

When up swam a fish with a children's book

Thought that I was lost

He was on his way to the salmon hop

That's where they go to breed

Saw me sitting on this log

And thought I'd like to read

The night was cloudy

But the moon he found a hole

Said that he felt bad for me

'Cause I had no place to go

Why aren't you at the harvest ball

With some sweet young gal

You just sit like a bump on the log

Call that fish your pal

Well I told him I was an orphan

Lived here all alone

But many people have often tried

To catch and take me home

They never caught me

Thought that I was a hiding call this log my home

But the fish and the moon and a sweet young gal

All want me for their own

The night was cloudy but the moon he found a hole

Said that he felt bad for me

'Cause I had no place to go

So I met that gal at the harvest ball

She took me to her room

While I slept in children's dreams

The fish ran away with the moon

The fish ran away with the moon

The fish ran away with the moon