Catfish Blues - Big Jack Johnson

Well if I was a catfish,

Swimming in da deep blue sea

I’d have a, all you big legged women,

Fish’n after me,

Fish’n after me,

Oil Man,

Oh yes I will, oh yes I will

Well I went, to my baby house

And I sat down on her step

She said, come on in Mr. Big Jack

Come in get that love,

Come in get that love

Come in get that love,

Lord my husband’s, get my love

Look at this right here

I put a bell on a buzzer

And you I…, I found it troll’n

I got a key to the highway,

But I got to go

I got her go

Gotta let her go-ooo

Lord I gotta let her go

Lord I gotta let this big legged woman go

Well, there’s two…,

Two trains run’n

Well never going my way

There’s one run at midnight

One leaves just for a day

One leaves just for a day

One leaves just for a day

That’s the train, that took baby away

That’s the train, that took baby away

Baby please don’t go,

Baby please don’t go,

BABY PLEASE DON’T GO!

I’ll beg you all night long,

I got you all night long,

I got my shackles on,

I got my shackles ON,

I got my shak’r, got my shak’r, got my shak’r, got my shak’r,

I got my shakers on…, baby

I got my shakers on

Baby please don’t go

Recorded LIVE version October 31,

1990 (Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads)