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Tiny Fish For Japan Ukulele

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Stan Rogers
Tiny Fish for Japan by Stan Rogers.
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.
            
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