Todd Snider - Corpus Christi Bay lyrics

I worked the rigs from three 'til 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 Who's always on the run We're 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 in every dance hall Had a tab in every bar If I could live my life all over It wouldn't matter anyway I never could stay sober Down on that Corpus Christi Bay My brother had a wife and family You know he gave 'em both a 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 Went down to the pier and got drunk 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 Down on that Corpus Christi Bay Now my brother lives in Houston Married for the second time Got a job with the union 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 He ordered me a beer If I could live my life all over It wouldn't matter anyway But I never could stay sober Down on that Corpus Christi Bay If I could live my life all over It wouldn't matter anyway I never could stay sober