Catfish Blues
(yet another more explicit Delta Blues version)
[see also "Rollin' Stone", "Still A Fool" & "Two Trains Runnin'"]
Words & Music by:
Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James

Remember, a lot of the original Delta Blues masters made their living at house parties and roadside taverns

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I would rather be a little old catfish,
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So, I could swim way down in the sea.
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I would have somebody settin' out hooks for me.
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Settin' out hooks for, hooks for...

Lord, I love that little women, better than I do myself.
And if she don't love me, she won't love nobody else,
Nobody else, nobody...

That's the reason I wanna be a catfish,
So I could swim deep down in the sea.
I would have many women setting out a line for me.
Setting out a line, a line for...

Baby, you can hitch me to your plow and I will plow just like a mule.
You can take me to your country and I won't hide no fool.
I wont be no, be no...

That's the reason I wanna be a little catfish,
So I could swim way down in the sea.
I would have somebody setting out a line for me.
Setting out a line, a line for...

Yes, and I want my little baby to let me care for her
Down in her little iron bed.
I wanna rub her little old belly until her nipples turn cherry red
Got to be red...

Yes, and I want to do my baby like a stud do a mare,
I wanna put my toe down in her groin an my head way up in the air.
In the air, in the...

That's the reason I wanna to be a catfish, 
So I could swim way down in the sea.
Have somebody send out a line and hooks for me, 
Hooks for me, hooks for...

Yes, and the baby I love she is just about six foot tall,
And she know just how I want my hatchet honed,
Hatchet honed, hatchet...