Tiny Fish for Japan Harmonica Tabs

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Where Patterson Creek’s muddy waters run down

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Past the penny arcades, by the harbour downtown,

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All the old Turtlebacks rust in the rain

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Like they never will leave there again.

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But leave there they will in the hours before dawn,

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Slip out in the darkness without word or song;

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For a few more years yet they will work while they can

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To catch tiny fish for Japan.

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No white fish or trout here, we leave them alone.

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The inspectors raise hell if we take any home.

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What kind of fisherman can’t eat his catch

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Or call what he’s taken his own?

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But the plant works three shifts now. There’s plenty of pay.

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We ship seventeen tons of this garbage each day.

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If we want to eat fish, then we’ll open a can,

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And catch tiny fish for Japan.

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