Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Fish Song lyrics

Sat here by this stony brook until the grey day turned to dust<br>When up swam a fish with a children's book thought that I was lost.<br>He was on his way to the salmon hop, that's where they go to breed<br>Saw me sitting on this log and thought I'd like to read.<br><br>The night was cloudy but the moon he found a hole<br>Said that he felt bad for me cause I had no place to go<br><br>Why aren't you at the harvest ball with some sweet young gal<br>You just sit like a bump on the log and call that fish your pal.<br><br>Well, I told him I was an orphan lived here all alone<br>But many people have often tried to catch and take me home<br>They never caught me!<br><br>Thought that I was a hiding, call this log my home<br>But the fish and the moon and a sweet young gal<br>All want me for their own.<br><br>The night was cloudy but the moon he found a hole<br>Said that he felt bad for me cause I had no place to go<br><br>So I met that gal at the harvest ball, she took me to her room<br>While I slept in children's dreams, the fish ran away with the moon.<br>The fish ran away with the moon<br>The fish ran away with the moon.