Chords for Chuck Brown - Saturday Night Fish Fry

_ [Eb] Well, all right now.
[Bbm] _ Uh, _ _ _ y'all can stay where you are.
_ [Eb] Let's [F] back it on up.
_ All right [Bbm] now.
_ A little bit louder.
_ Rock on.
[Gb] _ Rock on, Mr.
Fad.
Now, [Cm] _ [Bb] you ever [Eb] been down to New [Bb] Orleans, you can [F] understand just what I mean.
All through the [Eb] week, it's quiet as a [Bb] mouse, but on Saturday night, they go from house to house.
You [F] don't have to be the usual initiate if you're the cook or the [Bbm] waiter or the good musician.
So if you happen to be passing by, [D] check out the Saturday night fish fry.
Me and the fellas [F] was on the main stem, sitting around, [Bbm] just me and them.
So we decided to get [Ab] a bite to eat, so then we stopped at this household grandpa's.
Locked on the door, [Bb] he opened the gates, and then the [Bbm] sweet little girl said, come in, please.
And before we could even bat an eye, we walked right in the [Gb] middle of a big fish [Eb] fry.
Rocking, I said [Bbm] it was rocking.
You [Cm] never seen such government, [Fm] shove it down the break of dawn.
[F] See the break of [Gb] dawn.
[Bbm] _ _ _ [Gm]
So then, [F] _ rock on, _ [Bb] with your bad self.
[Eb] _ [Bbm] Bad self. _
Rock on.
[F] _ _ _ _ Mimi, Kisa, [Dbm] and Jaja.
[Gb] _ _ [F] _ [Bb] Me and the fellas, [Dm] we fell right in.
[Bbm] We knew it was time to let the good begin.
We figured this would be a [Eb] good place to play, because the party was already underway.
But all of [F] a sudden, the lights went [Bbm] low.
Everybody headed straight for the [Bb] door.
I was so scared, I didn't know where to go.
So I stood right there in the middle of the flood.
The women were screaming and jumping and yelling.
The bottles [Fm] were full and the fish were smoking.
[Bb] And we heard all the noise that made somebody holler, get out of [A] here, this is a lady.
[Bbm] I didn't know that he was breaking the law, until somebody reached over and [Ab] hit me right on the face.
[Bbm] They had us locked from the [Bb] front to the back, and they was [Gb] throwing us in that wagon like a [G] potato sack.
Rocking, [Bbm] _ it was rocking.
_ [Eb] You never see such resonance [Cm] until the break of dawn.
[F] Oh, [Ab] _ _ [G] until the break of [Eb] dawn.
Ah, until the break [Bb] of dawn.
Until the break of dawn.
[Bbm] Rocking until the break of dawn.
_ That fish.
_ _ That fish.
_ _ [Db] Tuna.
[F] _ _ [Db] Fish.
[C] _ [Bbm] I knew I could get away if I had a chance, but I was standing there shaking like I was in a trance.
I almost had to [Eb] crawl under [Bb] the bathtub before they could say, what are you doing there, brother?
They [Eb] got us out like the house was on [Bb] fire.
It's all on that old [Bbm] black garage.
The guests might have missed the fillet of the fish, [Bb] but they sure got me and the fellas.
We headed for [Eb] jail in today's condition.
It [F] booked each one of us on suspicion.
[Bb] My honey came [F] down and paid my bail.
She finally [Db] got me out of that old [Bbm] rotten jail.
Now, if you ever want to get a fish in your eye, mention to me a Saturday night fish fight.
I don't care how many fish in [F] the sea, but don't you ever, ever mention the fish to [G] me. Rocking.
[Bbm] _
_ Rocking.
You never [Cm] seen such grubbing and [Fm] shoving until the break of dawn.
[Cm] Until the [Db] break of dawn.
[Bb] _
_ _ [Bbm] Until the break of dawn. _
Just about to eat.
Until the break of dawn. _ _
Sitting in the corner, taking it easy.
Eating fried fish and getting all greasy.
_ Rocking.
Until the break of [G] dawn.
_ [Cm] Hound _ _ [E] _ _ horse and collared green.
[Bbm] Black eyed peas and [Dm] lime and beans.
[G] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Gb] Sitting in the corner, just taking it easy.
[Bb] Eating fried fish and getting [Dm] all greasy.
_ [G] _ [Gb] _ _ _
_ _ [N] Don't forget about the corn bread.
Don't forget about the corn [Dm] bread.
_ [Dbm] _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [Eb] Don't forget about the corn bread. _
_ _ _ _ _ Say what? _
My goodness.
Saturday night fish fight, y'all. _