This song was written on a lazy summer day in July 1990, sitting by a pond in Mississippi while my wife-to-be was fishing. I had just started taking my first guitar lessons after 12 years of playing, from a wonderful guitar player named Martin Simpson. I went to him saying I was in a rut and wanted to learn to fingerpick. He not only taught me to fingerpick but really knocked me out of my ruts by also introducing me to many alternate tunings. This is one of the first songs I wrote that was inspired by those lessons. The guitar is tuned DADGAC (low to high) and capoed at the fourth fret.

I break this out at open mics sometimes, and it always goes over really well. I don't usually capo it up since it's easier to sing four frets lower.

The only recording I've made is this one from the 1991 album 'navigating'.

I made a guide to a lot of my songs that are in alternate tunings.

Thanks for listening!

-Andy

catch

a sunny day by the side of the pond
you're fishing while I'm looking on
and playing this hokey song

	you're gonna catch one
	bigger than the one that got away
	everything's so mellow
	on this lazy summer day

chase a cricket through the grass
we'll see if you can't get that bass
then we'll fry him up for supper

watching dragonflies buzz around
and listening to the sounds
of bugs and birds in the trees

baby I'm agonna marry you
because I love you through and through
it all I'll always be true

a sunny day by the side of the pond
you're fishing while I'm looking on
and playing this hokey song


Thursday 5 July 1990
DADGAC capo IV
©1990 Andy Wyatt