Not only does my brother Robbie play acoustic guitar on this song, he took the photo of the album this track is on ("On Great Blue Heron Creek").
4 & 20 CATFISH
~ words & music by Grayson Hugh ~

Four and twenty catfish
swimmin' down the stream, just movin' along
under the brooks' edge
sleepin' in the shade by the big old log
swimmin' along and so satisfied
happy as can be just to be alive
there's that one wants to take the line
Be with me, with me, with me, with me
be with me, with me, with me
be with me, with me, with me, with me

Ten thousand people
livin' all together but we're all alone
under roof, tower and steeple
huddlled 'gainst the dark and the big unknown
drivin' down the highway side by side
everyone's out on a Sunday drive
every now and then you got to run and hide
Be with me, with me, with me, with me
be with me, with me, with me
be with me, with me, with me, with me

Somebody tell me what you see
when you've been reeled up from the sea
tell me

I wish I could just grow a fin
and leave my boat and the body I'm in
find out whether I'd sink or swim
Be with me, with me, with me, with me
be with me, with me, with me
be with me, with me, with me, with me
Somebody tell me what you see
when you've been reeled up from the sea
tell me

Four and twenty catfish
crowded all together and gettin' along
in bunches and batches
no government but they know what's goin' on
the sky above is bright and blue
the fish all know just what to do
they don't care about me and you
Be with me, with me, with me, with me
be with me, with me, with me
be with me, with me, with me, with me
be with me, oh yeah, be with me
yeah, yeah, four and twenty catfish
come on now

© 1994 by River Soul Music/ASCAP

On Great Blue Heron Creek

4 & 20 Catfish

“Grayson Hugh is an American original, a singer-songwriter of soulful rhythm and rough-sweet blues.  He is the uncompromising truth in a fake-it-till-you-make-it world.” - Leonard Pitts Jr., Winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, Miami Herald, January 9, 2019
"Grayson Hugh has been there and is back again. His story - our story - has to be heard" - Robert Doerschuk, CMAWorld.com, May 10, 2010.
"Hugh's piano playing is a veritable cyclone of soul, drawing its energy from such diverse regions as the swampland funk of Professor Longhair, the testifying soul of Ray Charles, with rhythms of African drumming and American bluegrass thrown in the mix." - Alt. Country, August, 2010 (Belgium)

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