YEA HO, LITTLE FISH



Come all ye bold fishermen, listen to me;

I'll sing you a song of the fish in the sea.



Yea ho, little fish, don't cry, don't cry;

Yea ho, little fish, you be a whale by and by.



You go to fish school and can learn from a book

How not to get caught on the fisherman's hook.



CHORUS



Watch out, little fish, we're out after you,

But you can escape away deep in the blue.



CHORUS



You just swim around the fisherman's bait

And you won't end up on the fisherman's plate.



CHORUS



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Recorded by Ed Trickett on "The Telling Takes Me Home", FSI-46.



"I learned this lullaby of warning from Mike Cohen in 1963. He

mentioned that the song, or one similar to it, could be heard in

the 1930's movie "Captains Courageous," which starred Spencer

Tracy. I could not find the words from the movie version, but it

was called "Manuel's love song" in the film and was written by

Gus Kahn and Franz Waxman. The words I song are, I believe, a

combination of traditional and written ones, with the tune and

the chorus being very similar to that found in Meredith and

Anderson's "Folksongs of Australia" in their song "The Little

Fish." They report the song to be Portuguese in origin, but

fairly widely known in North Queensland, Australia."



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sung by Ed Trickett on Telling Takes Me Home

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