Corpus Christie Bay

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I worked the rigs from three to midnight
                      F
On the Corpus Christi Bay
                           C
I'd get off and drink till daylight
                        G7
Sleep the morning right away
        C
I had a plan to take some wages
                          F
Leave the rigs behind for good
                    C
But that life it is contagious
            G7           C
And it gets down in your blood
I lived in Corpus with my brother
                      F
We were always on the run
                    C
We were bad for one another
                           G7
But we were good at having fun
       C
We got stoned out on the seawall
                          F
We got drunk and rolled a car
                           C
We knew the girls at every dance-hall
      G7           C
Had a tab at every bar
                            G7
If I could live my life all over
F                  C
It wouldn't matter anyway
                         G7
Cause I never could stay sober
                      C
On the Corpus Christi Bay
My brother had a wife and family
                             F
You know he gave them a good home
                             C
But his wife thought we were crazy
        G7                C
And one day we found them gone
We threw her clothes into the car trunk
                        F
Her photographs her rosary
                                C
We went out to the pier and got drunk
          G7              C
And threw it all into the sea
                            G7
If I could live my life all over
F                  C
It wouldn't matter anyway
                         G7
Cause I never could stay sober
                      C
On the Corpus Christi Bay
Now my brother lives in Houston
                          F
He married for the second time
                           C
He got a good job with the union
                        G7
And it's keeping him in line
           C
He came to Corpus just this weekend
                       F
It was good to see him here
                           C
He said he finally gave up drinking
        G7           C
Then he ordered me a beer
                            G7
If I could live my life all over
F                  C
It wouldn't matter anyway
                         G7
Cause I never could stay sober
                      C
On the Corpus Christi Bay
                            G7
If I could live my life all over
F                  C
It wouldn't matter anyway
                         G7
Cause I never could stay sober
                      C
On the Corpus Christi Bay