| Please have a seat. |
| I’m sorry I’m late
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| I know how long you’ve had to wait
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| I did not forget your documents
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| No time to waste, why not begin?
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| Here’s how it works, I’ve got these faces
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| You give them names and I won’t deport you
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| Make sure you face my tape recorder
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| Make no mistake, this fountain pen
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| Could put you on a plane by ten
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| And by the way, your next of kin
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| I know which house she’s hiding in
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| So now that you know whose skin you’re saving
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| In this photograph, who’s this one waving?
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| I think you know, so speak up, amigo
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| It says here that by trade you were a fisherman
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| Well I’ll bet you Indians can really reel them in
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| And if you get the chance
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| You should try to get up to Lake Michigan
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| Well maybe, but then again…
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| Where were we then? |
| Is he your friend?
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| Well I recommend that you look again
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| Where does he stay? |
| What is his name?
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| There is no shame. |
| He’d do the same
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| So what do you say? |
| I don’t have all day
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| It’s up to you. |
| Which will it be
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| Good citizen or poor campesino?
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| My dad used to rent us this place in Ontario
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| He showed us how to cast the line and tie the flies
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| He used to say that God rewards us for letting the small ones go
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| Well maybe, but I don’t know
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| Anyway, it’s easy to bite. |
| You just take the bait
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| You can’t snap the line
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| Don’t fight the hook
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| Hurts less if you don’t try to dive
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| Senor, as you know I was a fisherman
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| And how full the nets came in
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| We hauled them up by hand
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| But when we fled, I left them just out past the coral reefs
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| They’re waiting there for me
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| Running deep |
Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Fishing , by - Richard Shindell. Song from the album 13 Songs You May or May Not Have Heard Before, in the genre