You can fry a bass in oil and sassafras
You can eat it raw, right in your boat
You can boil a squid, or steam it with a lid
You can catch your limit in a moat

You can work your charms at the catfish farm
Baiting up those worms is quite a chore
Or you can ride a ship and hook some tuna lips
you won't be seeing "Charlie" anymore

Chorus:
But don't smell my carp
My Shake-n-Bakin' carp
It didn't cook the way I planned
And if you taste my carp
My Shake-n-bakin' carp
You'd best start runnin' for the can

You can shout it out, you caught a rainbow trout
You can say you ate some salmon eggs
Or tell your brother Joe the fishin's really slow
Mosquitoes nearly chewed up both your legs

Or tell your brother Bill you caught some nice blue gill
Tell him that you caught a trout that's brown
or go out fishin' drunk, get wasted as a skunk
Fall right over in the lake and drown

But don't smell my carp
My Shake-n-Bakin' carp
It didn't cook the way I planned
And if you taste my carp
My Shake-n-Bakin' carp
you might go runnin' for the can

(Repeat Chorus)