For Every Fish Songtext
von Adelaide Hall

Man eat the barracuda
Barracuda eat the bass
Bass eat the little flounder
′Cause the flounder's lower class
Little flounder eat the sardine
It′s natures plan
Little sardine eat the worm
Little worm eat the man


For every fish there's a little bigger fish
Just a little bigger fish
In the deep blue sea
And the big, big fish in the deep blue sea
Live off the fish that's littler than he
That′s the way things do occur
In the deep blue sea
That the littler eats the littler-er
′Cause the littler-er is littler than er
That's the way things do occur

For every fish that′s a bigger fish
There's a bigger-er-er-er

For every fish there′s a little bigger fish
Just a little bigger fish
In the deep blue sea
And the big, big fish in the deep blue sea
Live off the fish that's littler than he
That′s the way things do occur
In the deep blue sea
That the littler eats the littler-er
'Cause the littler-er is littler than her
That's the way things do occur

To state it more ethically, grammatically
It′s a vicious circle for the fisherman
And the fisherman is me