Tono: D
Introducción: D
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Well grandpa gave me a fishin pole and
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We never had a fishin hole
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Down on the farm that really didn?t matter to us
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We?d sit out on the old front porch
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With a rusty can full of kernel corn
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Bait ?er up and cast ?er out in the dust
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Fishin? fer chickens trying to catch a bigun
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White ones black ones yellow ones and red ones
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Don?t matter just long as I get one
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Mama finds out gonna catch a
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Mama don?t like nobody fishin for chickens
Verse
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I remember the time that I got in
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On a feedin frenzy in a school of hens
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And I was reelin one in Just when mama came flyin through the door
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Said cut that loose kid before you kill it
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I said it swallowed the hook mama grease up the skillet
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I knew she?s gonna wring my neck for sure
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Fishin? fer chickens trying to catch a bigun
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White ones black ones yellow ones and red ones
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Don?t matter just long as I get one
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Mama finds out gonna catch a
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Mama don?t like nobody fishin for chickens
BRIDGE
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Every morning in the misty light While my mama was sleepin tight
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I?d be sittin by grandpa?s side Waitin for the chickens to bite
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I was sittin on the front steps dreamin a bit
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When I felt that leghorn rooster hit
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And grandpa yelled out boy that?s the biggest one I ever saw
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You land that one son sure enough
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We?ll drive him to town and get him stuffed
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And when your mama ain?t lookin
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We?ll hang that rooster on the wall
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Fishin? fer chickens trying to catch a bigun
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White ones black ones yellow ones and red ones
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Don?t matter just long as I get one
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Mama finds out gonna catch another lickin
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Mama don?t like nobody Mama don?t allow nobody
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Mama don?t like nobody fishin for chickens