High Cost Of Fishing

Today I launched out of Venice and trolled The Wagon Wheel with jigs and pigs In the cuts and pockets of the dead-end marsh canals Caught my limit of monster bass Came home tired cleaned the fish And stuffed the filets in the freezer You work to pay the cost of living You live to play You die someday get forgiven But it's a damned shame about the high cost of fishing It's a damned shame about the high cost of fishing You need a boat motor trailer and a truck to pull 'em Fish-finder mobile phone and GPS Graphite rod and titanium reel Spinner crank soft and topwater baits Once upon a time I'd grab handfuls of earth Out the worm garden that grew in the yard Stuff the squirming dirt in a can Pick a cane pole behind the shed Walk down Orleans Avenue To the City Park lagoons and fish till dark You work to pay the cost of living You live to play You die someday get forgiven But it's a damned shame about the high cost of fishing It's a damned shame about the high cost of fishing You need a boat motor trailer and a truck to pull 'em Fish-finder mobile phone and GPS Graphite rod and titanium reel Spinner crank soft and topwater baits The water was black and deep then Swimming with bream and cats and sac-au-lait And the possibility of a green flash The phenomenal churn yank and splash Of a monster bass erupting Like a green god out of black water You work to pay the cost of living You live to play You die someday get forgiven But it's a damned shame about the high cost of fishing It's a damned shame about the high cost of fishing It's a damned shame about the high cost A damned shame about the high cost A damned shame about the high cost of fishing