Chords for Ray Stevens - "Too Drunk To Fish" (Music Video)

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_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G]
Hey, Raymond, how you doing?
Hey, buddy!
Boy, it's a great day for fishing, ain't it?
Sure is.
It'd be even nicer, though, if we had a boat.
Why don't you have a boat?
What happened to that?
What happened to that?
Ha ha!
Now there's an interesting story.
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_ _ _ _ _ Now, me and Harold, this buddy of [C] mine, decided that we'd go fishing one [G] time.
So we drove to the lake with my [D] brand-new bass boat.
_ [G] I brought the fish and poles, the pork and [C] beans, the saltine crackers and the canned [G] sardines,
and Harold [D] brought all the booze [G] one man could cope.
_ [C] While I loaded the boat and filled the [G] tank and tried to get that motor to [A] crank,
Harold just sat there sipping on a [D] long-neck beer.
_ [G] While I was steering the boat and tying the plugs, [C] he was drinking moonshine straight from the [G] jug,
and he was singing [D] Melancholy Baby [G] when we left the pier.
Oh, never go fishing with [C] a man who has been drinking
[G] because things just might not work out like [D] you wish.
[Am] _ [G] _ Just leave that fool at home to drink, [C] he'll be just as happy fishing [A] in the kitchen and singing.
[G] Don't [Em] go near the water, it ain't [A] man's [G] too drunk to fish.
_ _ [Em]
While I was concentrating, perfecting my cast, hoping to [D] land a trophy [Em] bass,
and Harold was having trouble trying to find the lake, _
laying there beside him at his feet was an anchor line, coiled up real [A] neat.
Harold saw it and whined as a ghost and [D] hollered, Snake!
_ [G] Well, he jumped straight up and began to [C] yell.
I said, Sit down, Harold, and behave yourself.
[G] Can't you see that ain't nothing but a [D] piece of rope?
Ha [Bm] ha!
But [G] he was scared to death, plumb out of his mind, [C] trying not to get bit by that anchor line,
[G] and he grabbed my shotgun, [D] blew a hole in the bottom [G] of the boat.
[Bm] _ _ _
Harold!
_ _ [F#] _ [G] Never go fishing with [C] a man who has been drinking
[G] because things just might not work out like you [D] wish.
[C] _ [Bm] [G] Just leave that fool at home to [C] drink, he'll be just as [A] happy fishing in the kitchen and [G] singing.
Don't go near the [Em] water, [A] it ain't [D] man's too [G] drunk to fish.
_ Now, too drunk to fish is too drunk to [C] swim, so I was dog paddling and dragging [G] him
and finally made it to a little [D] sandbar just big enough for two.
[G] And it was way after dark when that helicopter [C] came with that big searchlight, calling our [G] names,
and Harold looked up [D] at the sky and said, Lord, [G] is that you?
_ _ [Em] And then he knelt there in that heavenly glow and said,
[G] Lord, you know I ain't ready to go, [A] so if you pass me by tonight, [D] I will reform.
And then [G] they threw down a raft and I paddled [C] us home and he never touched a drop from that [G] moment on.
You know the Lord works in [D] mysterious [G] ways, his miracles do perform.
Never go fishing [C] with a man who has been drinking
[G] because things just might not work out [D] like you [C] wish.
[Bm] _ [Dm] [G] Just leave that fool at home to [C] drink, he'll be just as happy [A] fishing in the kitchen and [G] singing.
Don't go [Em] near the water [A] with a [D] man too [G] drunk to fish.
Don't go [Em] near the water [A] with a man [D] too drunk [G] to fish.
[C] _ [C#] _ [Gm] _ [C] _ [A] _ _ Hey, Ramone, you got one.
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