[Verse 1]
Woke up this morning
Wanting to cry
Then I remember
Yeah, I knew why
She's a real good one for having her cake
I'm gonna go fishing or jump in the lake

[Interlude]
Duke Ellington wrote this for Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder

[Verse 2]
Yeah, I'm gonna go fishing
That's what I'll do
Think about nothing
Not even you
Catch a real big one, a real speckled trout
Snapping in the water, I'll pull him on out

[Verse 3]
Sweet talking liar
Spin me a yarn
Tell me a story
Big as a barn
No use listening, I won't hear you out
I'm gonna go fishing and catch me a trout
[Bridge]
When a gal is a liar
Then a gal is a fool
Playing for keepers
Breaking the rules
She'll be the loser, yet to find out
I'm gonna go fishing and catch me a trout

[Instrumental break]

[Interlude]
Jeff Rupert on tenor sax, he is dynamite, Jeff Rupert

[Verse 4]
There in the water
Look at him shine
There goes a big one
That one is mine
Catch up the reel now, I've got the feel now
Hooked onto my fly rod, I've got me a trout

[Outro]
Sweet talking liar
You're in for a fall
You told me a story
Your back's to the wall
Don't come my way, I'm down the highway
I'm gonna go fishing
Yeah, I'm gonna go fishing
I'm gonna go fishing and get me a trout
Yeah