Name: Skinny the Fish
Channel: Matt
Description: Started out as a song about a gangster called Jimmy the Fish. Ended up being about a Baracuda called Skinny.

Started out as a song about a gangster called Jimmy the Fish. Ended up being about a Baracuda called Skinny.

Dr Hoos

Delta Blues. Original blues with a bit of Kiwi thrown in

Dr Hoos Blues Band was formed as an excuse for some mates to jam. After a lot of jamming with various musos the line up got solid. We did a gig at a surf club and that was that. We wanted to play even more. A gig here and a gig there got us out there and we lasted three years before events changed and the band sadly, folded up. There is another band in the pipeline with a similar Delta blues style on the way. And then some.

Song Info

Genre

Blues • Blues Rock

Charts

Peak #111

Peak in subgenre #44

Author

Matt

Rights

2005

Uploaded

May 24, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.2 MB • 128 kbps • 3:29

Story behind the song

The song swam in my head one night and kept me awake so I got up and wrote it. It was origonally called Jimmy the fish and was about a gangster but ended up about this mean fish called skinny. The gangster theme still prevailed.

Lyrics

Out in the pond was a fish called Skinny.
Skinny was the meanest fish you'd know.
Had all the sharks to help him.
Had all the rays to run the show.

You could do as you like but try as you might
You didn't stand a show.

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