Chords for The Gulf of Mexico

Come [A] and gather round me people, _ hand a tale to you [C#] I'll tell
Of my father [N] and his father in the days before the spill
_ With an endless sky above them, and a restless sea below
_ And every blessing flowing [C] from the Gulf of Mexico _ _ _ _
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_ [C] _ _ _ From my _ granddad worked the shrimp boats [F] from the time that he [C] was grown
_ [G] And he scrimped and saved and bought himself [F] a trawler of [C] his
He [G] was [C]
grub and he was ready, and [F] he drank when [C] he was home
[C] And [G] he made his family's living _ [F] on the Gulf of [C] Mexico
_ _ He [F] was _ _ [C] rolling, _ he [F] was _
_ _ [C] rolling, and the deep [F] blue weather he [G] was ruling
_ [C] _ _ Well [F] _ _
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_ my daddy drove a crew boat _ [F] hauling workers to [C] the rigs
He [G] was sick of mending nets and couldn't [F] stand the smell of [C] fish
He _ drew a steady paycheck when [F] he hears the Texan [C] quote
When he [G] died we spread his ashes on [F] the Gulf of _ [C] Mexico _
He [F] was _ _ [C] rolling, _ he [F] was _ _ [C] rolling, _ and the deep [Am] blue weather he [G] was _ ruling
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As for me I dreamed of nothing _ [F] any grander than [C] the day
That [G] I stepped out on the drilling floor [F] to earn a rough [C] next pay _
Then one night I swear I saw the devil [Dm] _ crawling from [C] the hole
And [G] he spilled the guts of hell out [F] in the Gulf of [C] Mexico _ _
We _ _ _ were _
_ _ [A] rolling, _ [C] _ we were [F] _ _ _ rolling, [C] _
_ _ across the blood red _ [F] water we [G] were _ _ ruling
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