Tiny Fish For Japan

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Where Patterson Creek's muddy 
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waters run down
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Past the penny arcades, by the 
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harbour downtown,
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All the old Turtlebacks rust in 
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the rain
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Like they never will leave there 
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again.
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But leave there they will in the 
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hours before dawn,
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Slip out in the darkness without 
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word or song;
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For a few more years yet they will 
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work while they can
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To catch tiny fish for Japan.

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No white fish or trout here, we 
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leave them alone.
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The inspectors raise hell if we 
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take any home.
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What kind of fisherman can't eat 
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his catch
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Or call what he's taken his own?

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But the plant works three shifts 
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now. There's plenty of pay.
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We ship seventeen tons of this 
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garbage each day.
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If we want to eat fish, then we'll 
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open a can,
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And catch tiny fish for Japan.

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In the Norfolk Hotel over far too 
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much beer,
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The old guys remember when the 
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water ran clear.
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No poisons with names that we 
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can't understand
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And no tiny fish for Japan

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So the days run together. Each 
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one is the same.
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And it's good that the smelt have 
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no lovelier name.
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For it's all just a job now, we'll 
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work while we can,
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To catch tiny fish for Japan.
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And we'll catch tiny fish for Japan.