Stan Rogers – Tiny Fish For Japan (Ukulele)

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Tabbed by Josh O'Leary. My first tab. to him for his great videos. It is supposed to be crosspicked, but I just strum the chords. Anyways, here are the I think the guy is playing. I cant quite figure out the chord I labelled D4?. I play it with the D string on the fret, and B and e both on the third. Thats what i think the guy plays, and it sounds good. Standard tuning, no capo.
       F         Dm             G         A
Where Patterson Creek's muddy waters run down

           F      F            Dm         G
Past the penny arcades, by the harbour downtown,

A                Dm      G           A
All the old Turtlebacks rust in the rain

           F          G            F
Like they never will leave there again.

     F                Dm           G            A
But leave there they will in the hours before dawn,

     F           F          Dm             G
Slip out in the darkness without word or song;

      A               Dm            G               A
For a few more years yet they will work while they can

    F          G         F
To catch tiny fish for Japan.

      G            G              F          F
No white fish or trout here, we leave them alone.

       F              F           Dm       G
The inspectors raise hell if we take any home.

G               G         F             F
What kind of fisherman can't eat his catch

     A              G4?        G
Or call what he's taken his own?

           F               Dm                  G         A
But the plant works three shifts now. There's plenty of pay.

           F       F             Dm          G
We ship seventeen tons of this garbage each day.

       A          Dm                G      A
If we want to eat fish, then we'll open a can,

      F         G        F
And catch tiny fish for Japan.

        G       G        F            F
In the Norfolk Hotel over far too much beer,

     F           F             Dm          G
The old guys remember when the water ran clear.

    G             G            F         F
No poisons with names that we can't understand

    A        G4?         G
And no tiny fish for Japan...

         F         Dm           G           A
So the days run together. Each one is the same.

          F             F             Dm       G
And it's good that the smelt have no lovelier name.

      A          Dm             G             A
It's all just a job now, we'll work while we can,

     F         G         F
To catch tiny fish for Japan.

           F          G         F
And we'll catch tiny fish for Japan.