Bait Shop

Lyrics

Words and Music Copyright © ℗ 2022 by Scott Richard Cooley


We've tried shiners and suckers

Sinkers, grasshoppers and crickets

We're gonna catch all the fish we can

Right up to the limit

And when we're through we're gonna lure us in

A school of ladies

We're sportin aviators and mullets

Like it's still the 80s


Me and the boys

We're headed on down to the bait shop

On our way to the lake

From where we just ate at a truck stop

We ain't no community of scholars

All we need is beer

And a bunch of night crawlers

Me and the boys

We're headed on down to the bait shop


We've tried jigs and spinners

Minnows, leaches and flies

It's time to get busy doin' nothin'

Under sunny skies

At night we'll head in

To hook up with some honky tonk women

'Till then we're loadin' up

Our tackle boxes and chillin'


Me and the boys

We're headed on down to the bait shop

On our way to the lake

From where we just ate at a truck stop

We ain't no community of scholars

All we need is beer

And a bunch of night crawlers

Me and the boys

We're headed on down to the bait shop


We've tried grubs and crankers

Poppers, plugs and spoons

Got our poles, a can of skoal

And a guitar to play some tunes

When we're done we'll have fun

Snaggin' mermaids in the bar

Tellin' whoppers about

The trophy monsters we've caught so far


Me and the boys

Are headed on down to the bait shop

On our way to the lake

From where we just ate at a truck stop

We ain't no community of scholars

All we need is beer

And a bunch of night crawlers

Me and the boys

We're headed on down to the bait shop


Me and the boys

We're headed on down to the bait shop

Don't need nothin' fancy

Too keep us happy in our tank tops

We've got it down to a science

Even though we skipped college

We get by just fine

On bass and carnal knowledge

Me and the boys

We're headed on down to the bait shop

Information

This was a straight-up assignment song.  My friend shared with me a list of song titles he had brainstormed and said I could take any of them, and this title jumped out at me, so I ran with it.  In the past when I wrote a song that was sort of a parody of country that ended up being wildly and inexplicably popular, Puttin' Up A Pole Barn, I thought I could do it again.  A caricature of itself kind of thing where it ends up being an actual good country song even though you were stereotyping like crazy and making fun of country.  That one worked with that approach, this one...not so much.  As always, I did it anyway and shared the result.