Chords for Todd Snider plays Corpus Christi Bay

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[G] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ I _ _ _ hope the richman treated me _ [C] _ [G] tonightwon't call him the [C] _ _ stristybye
I don't mean [G] to be a _ _ _ _ loony [C] and away _ _ _ [D] I had [G] a plan to take my life We did.
_ [C] _ [G] Neither of us were half [C] as good.
_ _ But this life [G] is contagious.
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You can tell in your [G] blood.
_ _ I met the Corpus with my brother.
_ [C] _ [G] We was [C] always on the run.
_ _ We were bad for [G] one another.
_ But we were good at [C] having fun.
_ _ We [G] got stoned along the _ [C] seawall.
[G] We got drunk and [C] rolled a car.
_ _ New [A] girls would [G] never dance hard.
_ [A] _ Had a tab and never [G] embarked.
_ _ How could my [C] life all go wrong?
Wouldn't matter [G] anyway.
_ [C] _ [G] _ I never could [D] stay [A] sober.
_ [D] _ [A] I never could [C] switch it off.
_ [G] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ My brother [C] had a wife and family.
_ [G] _ No even [C] both of them.
_ _ _ But his wife [G] thought we were crazy.
_ _ That one day we [A] found a [G] dog.
_ [C] _ Threw her clothes [G] into the car trunk.
[C] _ [G] _ _
[C] Photographed her rosary.
_ _ _ Went down to [G] the pier and got drunk.
[C] _ Threw it all into [G] the sea.
_ _ If I could live my [C] life all over.
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Wouldn't matter anyway. _ _ _
I never could stay [C] sober.
_ _ [Eb] Only [C] Corpus could sleep with me.
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[G] _ [Am] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ Well now my brother lives in Houston.
_ [C] _ [G] _ _ Got us married for the second [C] time.
_ _ Got a job [G] there with the Indian.
_ [C] _ [G] _
Just [C] keepin' him in line.
_ Came to [G] Corpus just this weekend.
[G] _ It's good [C] to see him here.
_ _ Said finally [G] he was _ _ [C] drinkin'.
Then he ordered [G] me a beer.
[E] _ [G] _ If I could live my [C] life all over.
_ _ Wouldn't matter [G] anyway.
_ [C] _ _ [G] Well I never could [D] stay sober.
_ _ [C] Only Corpus [G] could sleep with me.
[C] _ _ [G] If I could live my [Am] life all _ [C] over.
_ Wouldn't matter [G] anyway.
_ [C] _ [G] _ I never could [C] stay sober.
_ _ Only Corpus could sleep with [G] me.
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[C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _
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_ [C] _ _ I _ [Am] _ [G] _
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[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
don't _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _
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want to go any further into my apportionment program
without thanking my friend Robert O'Keefe for [C] making up that last song.
[N] _ I _ _ want to thank my dear friend and neighbor Elizabeth Cook and Tim Carroll for playing on the beer's last recital. _ _
_ _ _ _ I want to thank whoever's running this for giving me a chance to sing for you. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ If you've never seen me play before, my name is Todd Snyder.
I've been driving around this country for almost 20 years now.
I make this shit up and I sing it for anybody that will listen to me. _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ Some of the songs [F] are gonna be kinda [Gb] sad, some are gonna be kinda funny,
[E] some will be a little bit of both, some will be [Ebm] real short, some will seem like they go on [N] forever.
Sometimes I may ramble on for as many as 18 minutes in between the songs.
And I'll tell you something now, lately my friends [Gm] and neighbors have been telling me
that my newer [Ab] songs are getting more and more opinionated.
So I wanted to let you know that while I may share [A] some of my [Gm] opinions with you over the course of the show [N] tonight,
it's not gonna be because I think that you need to know them because they're smart
or because anything like that, it's gonna be because they rhyme.
_ _ _ _ I don't judge anybody's mind about anything.
I thought that I'm going [Dm] to ease my own mind [Gbm] about [Ab] everything.
[A] Because I love to do it.
[F] And with that said, I want to thank all [Ab] y'all for giving me a chance to do it.
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