My friend got out of jail today   I picked him up and he just said Hi   It was a victimless crime   He said I'm never going back   But I bet he will & I wonder why      He was such a good guy   But now he's got it all wrong   The days down in the tap room   Blinking in the butter light   The bridges hanging   With river mist & birth right   Who would have thought   This could make such a right   Such a wrong      Hell I've got places to go he said   He's burning rubber   There's mud in your eye   Making your plans while   30 years of a half life   Just passes you by      We were such bail birds   We had nothing to pack   The days down in the map room   Worryin' about the same things   Just leave the mess   For cabbages & kings   I'm gonna get on that train   And I ain't coming back      Chorus ~   I'm going fishing   Where the catfish bite   I'm going fishing   We can stay all night   I'm going fishing   And I ain't coming back.      Did you ever give yourself   A muscular past   Standing in some others shoes   Everybody thinks that you've   Been living in an airport   London to Old Kathmandu      We were such bail birds   We had nothing to pack   The days down in the tap room   Blinking in the butter light   The bridges hanging   With river mist & birth right   I'm gonna get on that train   And I ain't coming back      I'm going fishing   Where the crawfish bite   I'm going fishing   We can stay all night   I'm going fishing   And I ain't coming back