Chords with lyrics
Key: 
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Tuning: Standard
🎸 Intro:
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🎸 Verse :
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I worked the rigs from three
'til midnight
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On the Corpus Christi Bay
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I'd get off and drink 'til daylight
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Sleep the morning away
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I had a plan to take my wages
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Leave the rigs behind for good
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But that life, it is contagious
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And it gets down in your blood
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I lived in Corpus with my brother
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We was always on the run
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We were bad for one another
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But we were good at having fun
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We got stoned along the seawall
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We got drunk and rolled a car
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We knew the girls in every dance hall
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Had a tab in every bar
🎸 Chorus:
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If I could live my life all over
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It wouldn't matter anyway
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I never could stay sober
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Down on that Corpus Christi Bay
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My brother had a wife and family
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You know he gave 'em both a home
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But his wife thought we were crazy
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And one day we found her gone
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We threw her clothes into
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the car trunk
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Her photographs, her rosary
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Went down to the pier and got drunk
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Threw it all into the sea
🎸 Chorus:
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If I could live my life all over
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It wouldn't matter anyway
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'Cause I never could stay sober
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Down on that Corpus Christi Bay
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Now my brother lives in Houston
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Married for the second time
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Got a job with the union
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It's keeping him in line
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He came to Corpus just this weekend
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It was good to see him here
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He said he finally gave up drinking
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He ordered me a beer
🎸 Chorus:
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If I could live my life all over
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It wouldn't matter anyway
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Well I never could stay sober
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Down on that Corpus Christi Bay
🎸 Outro:
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If I could live my life all over
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It wouldn't matter anyway
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I never could stay sober
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Chords used in song:
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Corpus Christi Bay chords
Corpus Christi Bay by Todd Snider is a song from the album The Excitement Plan, released on 9 June 2009. Written by Robert Earl Keen. Produced by Eric McConnell.
