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Salmon Love
by Mike Campbell 1997

I've been swimming in the ocean for about four years,
It's really kind of boring cause there's nothing doing here,
I cruise around all day, I watch the other fishes swim,
I think it might be time for me to head back home again,
There is a little place upstream that I've been thinking of,
I believe I got a case of that, salmon love.
I said, Oh my, just look at my size,
I am so much larger than when I was a fry,
Oh my, like a streak in the sky,
I'm fast, strong and handsome through the water I fly.

Fishing boats are dragging their nets on the tide,
There doesn't seem to be any place I can hide,
Thousands of my buddies getting caught everyday,
But I'm gonna get through, I know I'll find me a way,
And now I'm in the river and I'm headed for home,
Cause this salmon love it just won't leave me alone,
I said, Oh my, gotta jump real high,
A waterfall is coming, lord I wish I could fly,
Oh my, now what else do I spy,
Why it's a grizzly bear who's got a hungry look in his eye.

Salmon love is driving me to swim upstream,
Living like a salmon boys it ain't what it seems,
There's fishermen on every bank as far as I see,
And all of them are trying to get their hooks in me,
There's a spinner in my dorsal and a fly in my tail,
I think every single fisherman belongs in jail,
I said, Oh my, I see with my eye,
All the pretty colors of them fishing flies,
Oh my, now I really must try,
I have got to get to heaven before I can die.

Salmon love, you see, it is a terminal disease,
But it doesn't make me shiver and I hardly ever sneeze,
It turns my body bright red, my head and fins turn green,
My upper jaw gets snaggled, lord I look so damn mean,
But if I can find a place to spawn with the moon up above,
Then I won't mind terminating from salmon love.

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