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Where the Fish Are (2009) The text is a self-portrait in middle-age, but using colors and imagery reminiscent of my father, Carl F. Jobe whom I came to really know when he was middle-aged. Not sure if that makes sense, but there it is.

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Where the Fish Are

Sitting pretty in the catbird seat,
Whiling a while, stitching time,
Stuck on this side of the mirror here,
Now I'm wishing, wishing for a rhyme.
But the weather preys on my mind,
Confirming the auguries, the auguries of birds,
I can hear my bones make knick-knack, knick-knack,
And the entrails are singing in thirds.
Still, I'm fishing where the fish are:

Green River, Blue River, Red River, Yellow River,
Black River, White River, Gold River, Silver River,
And the clear, Clear River.

Purple mountains, purple majesties,
Angel skies and a devil's food heart,
Born again as a moth to the flame,
The Milky Way dressed up like a tart.
Sitting pretty in the catbird seat,
Whiling a while, stitching time,
Stuck on this side of the mirror here,
Now I'm wishing, wishing for a rhyme.
Still, I'm fishing where the fish are:

Green River, Blue River, Red River, Yellow River,
Black River, White River, Gold River, Silver River,
And the clear, Clear River.

We'll have ourselves a time,
We'll have ourselves a time.
We will.

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from Where The Fish Are, released March 8, 2020
Steve Jobe aing the verses; Chuck Carey sang the melody in the middle "green river" passage while Ellen Santaniello sang harmony. Many of those who came through to lay down tracks on the CD also sang on the "we'll have ourselves a time/we will" coda.

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Steve Jobe Providence, Rhode Island

Born in 1955 in Mt. Vernon Ohio, the same hometown as Daniel Decatur Emmett, the composer of the song, “Dixie.” I settled into RI for good in 1984 and began composing soon after. I have a respectable body of work: two operas, a couple of concertos both commissioned, a cantata that was commissioned, a string quartet that won an award in 2006.
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