Robert Earl Keen - Corpus Christi Bay guitar chord

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From: tbacus@onramp.net (Thomas P. Bacus)

Here is a great Robert Earl Keen Jr. song off his A Bigger Piece of Sky

Album

Corpus Christi Bay

by Robert Earl Keen Jr.

Capo on 3rd fret

G C G

I worked the rigs from three Ttil midnight

G C

On the Corpus Christi Bay

C G

IUd get off and drink Ttil daylight

G D

Sleep the morninU away

D C G

I had a plan to take my wages

G C

Leave the rigs behind for good

C G D

But that life it is contagious

D G

And it gets down in your blood

I lived in Corpus with my brother

We were always on the run

We were bad for one another

But we were good at having fun

We got stoned along the seawall

We got drunk and rolled a car

We knew the girls at every dancehall

Had a tab at every bar

Chorus:

G D C

If I could live my life all over

C G

It wouldnUt matter anyway

G C D

TCause I never could stay sober

D G

On the Corpus Christi Bay

My brother had a wife and family

You know he gave Tem a good home

But his wife thought we were crazy

And one day we found her gone

We threw here clothes into the car trunk

Her photographs her rosary

We went to the pier and got drunk

And threw it all into the sea

CHORUS

Now my brother lives in Houston

He married for the second time

He got a job with the union

And itUs keeping him in line

He came to Corpus just this weekend

It was good to see him here

He said he finally gave up drinkinU

Then he ordered me a beer

CHORUS (TWICE)