Silly Lily

Now even though the fishing is great at the Silly Lily and on the east end of LI, sometimes that big one just gets away. This is a song for all the fish out there that got away.

Strumming pattern oumchuk oumchuk. Click here for melody.

(refrain)
(G) "There lives a fluke as big as me,"
(G) said the old man at the Silly Lily,
(D) And I swear my boy I almost caught him,
(C G) Fisherman's word I almost caught him.

I tried clams and I tried bait,
with chicken bones for appetite,
Frozen shiners and bunker chum,
live killies with a side of bloodworms.

I drifted over black mussel beds,
the channel of the deep deep blue,
That's where I caught sea lettuce,
calico crabs and horseshoe.

(refrain)
There lives a fluke big as me...

I swear on Momma, I wouldn't lie
Then I saw that fishes eye
without a blink beneath the sea,
Freddy Flatty was smiling at me.

I'm an old man who's hungry for dinner,
I wanted to eat Freddy Flatty for dinner.
Fried in butter and tasty juices,
I jumped up in my fishermen's bootses.

He bit my hook and ate my bobber,
swallowed whole the line and sinker,
Shot off like an arrow straight,
across the bay he tried to escape.

(refrain)
There lives a fluke big as me...

He dredged east cut's deepy blue,
the inlet sandbar's sailed right through
onion bag channel's murky sticks,
jumped bird island off the cliffs.

(drumming on guitar only lines 1,2)
Then in clam clapping time,
They cut, they cut, they cut the line,
Yes the clams were dancing, Ha Ha Ha
dancing, on my fishing line.

(slow and sentimental)
And as I watched him cross the sea,
He jumped up on buoy thirty-three,
He just smiled and flexed his fins,
He said, "I'm Freddy Flatty, Flatty with twenty grins."

(refrain x2)
There lives a fluke big as me...