| Man what a winter
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| Sorrow wide and deep
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| Is it just the media industry or the whole country
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| That is turning into sheep?
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| I wanna go to a good place
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| With a friend of mine
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| Cast our souls out in the river
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| And watch the whole deal shine
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| Some little crick in Massachusetts, just over the hill
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| Oh I, I’m goin' fishin' with Bill
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| Well, Bill, I bet he is a good fly caster
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| He grew up on these eastern brooks
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| Me, I grew up on the midwestern cricks
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| Casting crappie flies for chubs and such
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| But in my young imagination
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| I watched a Number 20 Coachman settle down
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| Sitting by the stove in that little library
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| Reading Roderick L. Haig Brown
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| I never did fish in Vancouver. |
| I probably never will
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| I don’t care. |
| I’m goin' fishin' with Bill
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| Well, it’s a long and noble tradition
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| Catching trout on the fly
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| When you’re done, with the setting of the sun
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| Gonna drink a little bourbon if you’re dry
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| See some folks out on the river
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| Cool, scientific and clean
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| They look like everything just kinda stuck to them
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| The last time they walked through ol' L. L. Bean
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| My friend, Dave, says the good fishermen are the ones who have fun and we will
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| Oh I, I’m goin' fishin' with Bill
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| Sittin' in a bar in Brattleboro
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| Thinkin' about one of his songs
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| The rain was pourin' down, and I was pourin' it down
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| And all I could do was hum along
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| We’ve talked about goin' fishin' so often
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| At some party when the gig was done
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| Well, life slips by like a little dry fly
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| Sliding down a deep slick run
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| So let us stand steady like an old mill
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| Oh I, I’m goin' fishin' with Bill
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| Maybe Handsome Molly will pass by
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| As we cast away the hours
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| Somewhere on a river somewhere far away
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| From stupid people in positions of power
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| Someday when we ain’t folk singers
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| Flyin' through the friendly skies
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| We won’t be waiting for the big break
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| Or anything except the evening rise
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| On some spring crick in Wisconsin or maybe the Batten Kill
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| Oh I, I’m goin' fishin' with Bill
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| I’m goin' fishin' with Bill… um um um
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| I’m goin' fishin' with Bill… yes, I am
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| I’m goin' fishin' with Bill
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| G: Y’know, Bill?
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| B: Wha? |
| Wha?
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| G: I think if we just tried a little, some kinda little streamer right
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| Over there; |
| go ahead and cast over…
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| B: What d’ya got — a blasting cap?
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| G: See that clump of grass over there…
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| B: A Number 12 blasting cap…
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| G: … on the other side over there?
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| B: Yeah, yeah I see that
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| G: I have a feelin' there’s about a 5 ½ pound rainbow under one of them…
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| B: Ah, 6…
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| G: …just waitin' for someone to come along… and catch…
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| B: I’ll catch the fish
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| G: We need to catch just one trout here, Bill… just one.
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| B: What? |
| Ya hungry?
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| G: …'cause I’m hungry, I don’t know about you…
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| B: Well, I’ll catch the fish
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| G: I know we’re both catch and release guys. |
| I know we believe in that
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| But if we caught just one trout, we could eat it, couldn’t we, so we could
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| Sustain ourselves and the beautiful spirit of the trout would become part of
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| Us… and I’m hungry
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| B: Ah, ah…
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| G: Well, I’m not complainin' 'bout gettin' lost today
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| B: We, we weren’t lost, Greg, ah…
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| G: We’ve seen a lot of parts of Massachusetts I’ve never seen before; |
| it’s
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| Not that, it’s…
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| B: …the map was broken
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| G: …it's late and we need to catch one trout and put…
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| B: …ok, ok, alright, I’ll…
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| G: …it on the grill if it’s OK
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| B: Alright
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| Goin' fishin' with Bill
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| Goin' fishin' with Bill
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| Goin' fishin' with Bill |