Had trouble with some of the piscine puns in the song so here come my annotations
I was a cook and she was a waitress
Down at the Salty Sam Seafood Café
And somewhere 'tween the clam juice and the seaweed salad
Some little shrimp[someone insignificant and possibly short in stature] just lured her away
Oh, I lobster[lost her] and never flounder[found her]
He wrapped his line around her
and they drove off in his carp[car]
Oh, I lobster[lost her] and never flounder[found her]
I octopus[oughta push] his face in
Eel[he'll] only break her heart
(Note: push someone's face in = to hit on the nose, the idiom is mentioned in the Oxford English Dictionary in the entry for the word "push")
I said, "Just squid[quit] and leave me
for that piano tuna[tuner]
if you want to trout[try out] someone new"
She was the bass[best] I ever had
Now my life has no porpoise[purpose]
Oh, my cod[god], I love her, yes, I do.
(refrain)
... now trout and sea if ayu are koi enough to smelt out the rest
I was a cook and she was a waitress
Down at the Salty Sam Seafood Café
And somewhere 'tween the clam juice and the seaweed salad
Some little shrimp[someone insignificant and possibly short in stature] just lured her away
Oh, I lobster[lost her] and never flounder[found her]
He wrapped his line around her
and they drove off in his carp[car]
Oh, I lobster[lost her] and never flounder[found her]
I octopus[oughta push] his face in
Eel[he'll] only break her heart
(Note: push someone's face in = to hit on the nose, the idiom is mentioned in the Oxford English Dictionary in the entry for the word "push")
I said, "Just squid[quit] and leave me
for that piano tuna[tuner]
if you want to trout[try out] someone new"
She was the bass[best] I ever had
Now my life has no porpoise[purpose]
Oh, my cod[god], I love her, yes, I do.
(refrain)
... now trout and sea if ayu are koi enough to smelt out the rest
