Chords
Go Fishing

Key: G

Introduction: Em    Em7    C    D    

Bm7  
We set out in the Spring =
                                                                                                                  D  
With a trunkful of books about everything.
Bm7  
About solar devices
                                                                        D  
And how nice natural childbirth is.
C7+/E  
We cut down some trees and trailed our ideals
                                          B7  
Through the forest glade.
C7+/E  
We dammed up the stream and the kids cooled their heels
                        B7  
In the fishing pool we made.
Em                                                                 Em7  
We held hands and we exchanged bands
                        C                                      C7+            D  
And we practically lived off the land.
Bm7  
You adopted a fox cub
                                                                                                D  
Whose mother was somebody's coat.
Bm7  
You fed him by hand, then snuggled him down
                  D  
In the grandfather bed, while I wrote.
C7+/E  
And we grew our own maize
                                                                                     B7  
And I only occasionally went into town
C7+/E  
To stock up on antibiotics
                                                                  B7  
And shells for the shotgun that I kept around.
Em                                                                                                    Em7  
I told the kids stories while you worked your loom
                          C                                            C7+                            D  
And the sun went down sooner each day.
G  Em7/F#    Em  Em7    C  C7+    D  D9(2x)  
Bm7    D(2x)  
C7+/E    B7(2x)  
Bm7  
Then the leaves all fell down,
                                                                                                             D  
And the crops all turned brown.    It was over.
Bm7  
As the first snowflakes fell
                                                                             D  
I realized all was not well in the camp.
C7+/E  
The kids caught bronchitis,
                                                                                                B7  
The space heater ran out of diesel,
          C7+/E  
One weekend a friend from the east
                                                                                          B7  
(Rot his soul) stole your heart.
Em                                                                                                         Em7  
I said, =D2Fuck it then, take the kids back to town,
C                              C7+                    D            D9  
Maybe I'll see you around.=D3
G  Em7/F#    Em  Em7    C  C7+    D  D9(2x)  
                        G                      Em7/F#    Em              Em7  
And so leaving all our hopes and dreams
                        C              C7+            D  
To the wind and the rain,
D9         G                         Em7/F#=  
Taking only our stash,
                             Em                                 Em7  
Left our litter and trash
          C                            C7+  
And set out =
D                    D9  G(etc.  
On the road again.