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"Fishing Blues"
Single by Henry Thomas "Ragtime Texas"
Released1928
RecordedChicago, June 13, 1928
GenreTexas blues
Length2:44
LabelVocalion (1249)
Songwriter(s)Unknown
Henry Thomas "Ragtime Texas" singles chronology
"Bull-Doze Blues" / "Old Country Stomp"
(1928)
"Fishing Blues" / "Texas Worried Blues"
(1928)
"Arkansas"
(1928)

"Fishing Blues" is a blues song written in 1911 by Chris Smith, who is best known for "Ballin' the Jack". "Fishing Blues" was first recorded in 1928 by Henry Thomas "Ragtime Texas" on vocals and guitar with the introduction and breaks played on quills, a type of panpipe.[1][2] Some later versions by other artists call it "Fishin' Blues".

The song ostensibly describes the pleasures of catching, cooking, and eating your own fish, particularly catfish. The refrain runs:

Here's a little somethin' I would like to relate,
Any fish bite, you've got good bait,
I'm a-goin' a-fishin', yes, I'm a-goin' a-fishin',
I'm a-goin' a-fishin' too.

In 1930, the Carter Brothers (Armenter "Bo Carter" Chatmon, perhaps with his brothers Lonnie and Sam Chatmon) recorded an unreleased track for Okeh Records titled "Any Fish Will Bite if You Got Good Bait".[3] This may have been the same song; suggesting that it may have been traditional rather than written by Thomas.

Thomas' recording was included on the 1952 compilation album Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume Three: Songs (Blue Singing).

In 1964, the song was revived by American folk musician Mike Seeger. Over the next five years, it was recorded by artists including The Holy Modal Rounders, Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band, The Lovin' Spoonful (on their debut album Do You Believe in Magic), John Martyn and Taj Mahal. It has since been recorded many times. The recording history as of 2015 suggests that it has attained the status of a folk and blues standard.

Recordings

Other songs

The following songs have similar titles to the one which is the subject of this article, but are different from it and from each other:

References

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