Corpus Christi Bay

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