Corpus Christi Bay Lyrics

I worked the rigs from three to midnight

On the Corpus Christi Bay
I'd get off and drink till daylight

Sleep the morning right away

I had a plan to take some 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 out on 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 them a good home

But his wife thought we were crazy

And one day we found them gone
We threw her clothes into the car trunk

Her photographs her rosary

We went out to the pier and got drunk

And threw it all into the sea

Now my brother lives in Houston

He married for the second time

He got a good 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