Noodling  
Find your favorite fishing spot  
Stick your hand right on in  
Over the creek or swamp we squat  
Catching dinner with a grin

Catfish are a biting lot  
The first hand to bleed will win  
For noodling is the best way for fish to be caught  
It don’t matter if the fish takes off your skin

It don’t matter if it’s cold or hot  
Catfish be so tasty we fight over the last fin  
For hunger ties my stomach in a knot  
Just be sure to share with your kin

While we pray to escape what poverty wrought  
I wiggle my fingers so supper will grease my chin  
Re-teaching the lesson that my Daddy taught  
For to let ones children go hungry would be a sin