Guy Clark – South Coast Of Texas (Guitar)

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The south coast of Texas, that's a thin slice of life

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It's salty and hard, it is stern as a knife

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Where the wind is for blowin' up, hurricanes for showin'

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Snakes how to swim and trees how to lean

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And the shrimpers and their ladies are out in the beer joints

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Drinkin' 'em down for they sail with the dawn

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They're bound for the Mexican bay of Campeche

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And the deck hands are singin' "Adios, Jole Blon"

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There's snow birds in search of that sunshine and nightlife

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Fond of greasin' palms down the beach as they're goin'

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Ah, this livin' on the edge of the waters of the world

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demands

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Roland

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And the shrimpers and their ladies are out in the beer joints

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Drinkin' 'em down for they sail with the dawn

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They're bound for the Mexican bay of Campeche

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And the deck hands are singin' "Adios, Jole Blon"

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In the cars of my youth, how I tore through those sand dunes

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And cut up my tires on them oyster shell roads

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But, nothin' lasts forever say the old men in the shipyards

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Turnin' trees into shrimp boats; hell, I guess they oughta

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know

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And the shrimpers and their ladies are out in the beer joints

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Drinkin' 'em down for they sail with the dawn

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They're bound for the Mexican bay of Campeche

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And the deck hands are singin' "Adios, Jole Blon"