Fishin For Chickens

	  		
 

Intro: D  

Verse 
     C                 C7 
Well grandpa gave me a fishin pole and  
F              D 
We never had a fishin hole  
C                                            G 
Down on the farm that really didn’t matter to us  
C                   C7 
We’d sit out on the old front porch  
F                        D 
With a rusty can full of kernel corn  
C               G                   C 
Bait ‘er up and cast ‘er out in the dust  


            F                          C 
Fishin’ fer chickens trying to catch a bigun  
G 
White ones black ones yellow ones and red ones  
C 
Don’t matter just long as I get one  
           F                 C        Am 
Mama finds out gonna catch a  
G                                C 
Mama don’t like nobody fishin for chickens  



Verse 
    C                    C7 
I remember the time that I got in  
     F                  D 
On a feedin frenzy in a school of hens  
          C                                                   G 
And I was reelin one in Just when mama came flyin through the door  
     C                   C7 
Said cut that loose kid before you kill it  
          F                       D 
I said it swallowed the hook mama grease up the skillet  
  C                G                 C 
I knew she’s gonna wring my neck for sure  


            F                          C 
Fishin’ fer chickens trying to catch a bigun  
G 
White ones black ones yellow ones and red ones  
C 
Don’t matter just long as I get one  
           F                 C        Am 
Mama finds out gonna catch a  
G                                C 
Mama don’t like nobody fishin for chickens
  


BRIDGE 

Am                               C 
Every morning in the misty light While my mama was sleepin tight  
Am                              G 
I’d be sittin by grandpa’s side Waitin for the chickens to bite  
      C                         C7 
I was sittin on the front steps dreamin a bit  
       F                 D 
When I felt that leghorn rooster hit  
            C                                            G 
And grandpa yelled out boy that’s the biggest one I ever saw  
    C                 C7 
You land that one son sure enough  
      F                     D 
We’ll drive him to town and get him stuffed  
               C 
And when your mama ain’t lookin  
      G                        C 
We’ll hang that rooster on the wall  

            F                          C 
Fishin’ fer chickens trying to catch a bigun  
G        
White ones black ones yellow ones and red ones  
C 
Don’t matter just long as I get one  
           F                       C      Am 
Mama finds out gonna catch another lickin  
G                      F                  G 
Mama don’t like nobody Mama don’t allow nobody  
F                 G               C 
Mama don’t like nobody fishin for chickens