Stan Rogers – Tiny Fish For Japan chords

Tiny Fish for Japan by Stan Rogers.

These are the chords I use when playing this song;

              G     Am    D    Em7  Cadd9   D4

E String -    3     0     2     3     3     3
B String -    3     1     3     3     3     3
G String -    0     2     2     0     0     2
D String -    0     2     0     2     2     0
A String -    2     0     0     2     3     0
E String -    3     0     X     0     0     X


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       G         Am             D         Em7Where Patterson Creek's muddy waters run down
          Cadd9      G          Am         DPast the penny arcades, by the harbour downtown,
Em7           Am        D           Em7All the old Turtlebacks rust in the rain
           Cadd9      D            GLike they never will leave there again.
     G                Am          D           Em7But leave there they will in the hours before dawn,
     Cadd9       G          Am            DSlip out in the darkness without word or song;
      Em7            Am            D               Em7For a few more years yet they will work while they can
    Cadd9     D         GTo catch tiny fish for Japan.

    D            D              Cadd9      GNo white fish or trout here, we leave them alone.
       Cadd9         G           Am       DThe inspectors raise hell if we take any home.
D               D      Cadd9         GWhat kind of fisherman can't eat his catch
   Em7            D4        DOr call what he's taken his own?

        G                 Am                  D         Em7But the plant works three shifts now. There's plenty of pay.
         Cadd9    G             Am          DWe ship seventeen tons of this garbage each day.
       Em7        Am                D     Em7If we want to eat fish, then we'll open a can,
    Cadd9      D        GAnd catch tiny fish for Japan.

        D       D            Cadd9        GIn the Norfolk Hotel there's far too much beer,
     Cadd9     G               Am         DThe old guys remember when the water ran clear.
    D             D           Cadd9      GNo poisons with names that we can't understand
    Em7      D4         DAnd no tiny fish for Japan...

       G          Am           D          Em7So the days run together. Each one is the same.
         Cadd9         G             Am       DAnd it's good that the smelt have no lovelier name.
     Em7        Am             D             Em7It's all just a job now, we'll work while we can,
   Cadd9      D         GTo catch tiny fish for Japan.
          Cadd9      D         GAnd we'll catch tiny fish for Japan.