Chords for The Thing About Fish

What is it about fish?
[Gb] You may never [Db] have been to sea, never eaten [Eb] or seen.
[Gb] Fish that [Db] shape your destiny, that's [Ebm] the thing about fish.
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_ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ _ [Ebm] We've heard [Eb] all the stories [Ebm] and folk songs that tell us [Db] how people
survived [Ebm] here throughout [Bbm] the years.
_ _ [Ebm] And how the [Db] poor families of [Bbm] laboring fishermen
_ [Ebm] got by [Db] on nothing but blood, [Bbm] sweat and tears.
What [Ebm] is it about fish [Gb] that haunts the soul [Db] that wanders here?
[Ebm] Takes us back to [Gb] a bleaker time, [Db] one more severe.
That's the thing [Ebm] about fish. _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ If you [Eb] read your history, you know [Gb] that it's always [Db] been said
how [Ebm] hard done [Bbm] by we are.
_ _ [Ebm] So oft [Db]
repeated [Gb] we've come to [Bbm] believe it, [Ebm] so we stand [Db] still and wonder why we [Bbm] never get far.
_ _ [Ebm] What is it about fish [Gb] that makes us [Db] want to give it all away?
[Ebm] Whatever we are, [Gb] it's fish that [Db] brought us where we are today.
That's the [Ab] thing about fish. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Gb] _ _ We [Ebm]
just have to cast a glance over our shoulder [Gb] at the trail of [Ab] false prophets.
[Ebm] Who've led [Bbm] us far wrong.
_ _ [Ebm] Be wary [Db] of those [Gb] blaring patriot [Bbm] trumpets,
[B] as though there was [Gb] doubt about where [Bbm] we belong.
_ [F] What is it [Eb] about fish [Gb] and how our [Db] story has been told?
Now it's [Eb] all about oil, [Gb] hydro-iron [Db] or nickel and gold.
It don't smell [Ebm] like fish, [Gb] it brought us [Db] here from distant lands.
Now we're under [Ebm] the flake, [Gb] trying to scrub the [Db] smell off our hands.
That's the [B] thing about [Gb] fish.
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_ [Ab] _ _ [Ebm] The strength that we gain from the journey we've taken.
[Gb] The loved [Ab] ones we've lost to [Ebm] the _ _ [Bbm]
treacherous foe.
_ [Ebm] The pride that [Db] we share [Gb] in the land [Bbm] of our forebears.
[Ebm] Good [Db] fortunes we seek in the comforts [Bbm] of home.
_ What is it [Ebm] about fish?
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Ancient [Db] symbol of Christian love.
Feeds body [Ebm] and soul.
[Gb] From oceans [Db] ruled by God above.
That's the [Ebm] thing about fish.
[Gb] You may never [Db] have been to sea.
Never [Ebm] eaten or seen.
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Fish that [Db] shaped your destiny.
That's the thing [B] about [Gb] fish.
That's the [Db] thing about [Ab] fish.
That's the [B] thing about fish.
[Db] That's the thing [Ebm] about fish.
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