The South Coast Of Texas-Guy Clark

[ti:The South Coast Of Texas] [ar:Guy Clark] [al:The South Coast of Texas] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The South Coast Of Texas - Guy Clark [00:01.24]The south coast of Texas is a thin' slice of life [00:05.86]It's salty and hard it is stern as a knife [00:10.47] [00:11.85]Where the wind is for blown up hurricanes for showing [00:17.03]The snakes how to swim and the trees how to lean [00:21.57] [00:23.31]Shrimpers and their ladies are out in the beer joints [00:28.41]Drinking 'em down for they sail with the dawn [00:32.71] [00:34.34]They're bound for the Mexican bay of Campeche [00:39.12]And the deck hands are singing adios Jole Blong [00:43.59] [00:47.41]Other snowbirds in search of that sunshine and night life [00:52.78]And fond of greasing palms down the beach as they're going [00:57.25] [00:58.50]Ooh this living on the edge of the waters of the world [01:03.30]Demands the dignity of whooping cranes and [01:06.39]The likes of gilbert roland [01:08.30] [01:09.97]And the shrimpers and their ladies are out in the beer joints [01:14.86] [01:15.54]Drinking 'em down for they sail with the dawn [01:19.54] [01:20.99]They're bound for the Mexican bay of Campeche [01:26.09]And the deck hands are singing adios Jole Blong [01:30.57] [01:46.10]In the cars of my youth how I tore thru those sand dunes [01:51.19]Cut up my tires on them oyster shell roads [01:55.67] [01:56.64]But nothing is forever say the old men in the shipyards [02:01.81]Turning trees into shrimp oats hell I guess they ought to know [02:06.42] [02:07.97]And the shrimpers and their ladies are out in the beer joints [02:13.08] [02:13.77]Drinking 'em down for they sail with the dawn [02:17.69] [02:19.40]They're bound for the Mexican bay of Campeche [02:24.38]And the deck hands are singing adios Jole Blong [02:29.08] [02:30.32]Which shrimpers and their ladies are out in the beer joints [02:35.38] [02:36.14]Drinking 'em down for they sail with the dawn [02:40.09] [02:41.66]They're bound for the Mexican bay of Campeche [02:46.70]And the deck hands are singing adios Jole Blong [02:50.98] [02:52.62]And the deck hands are singing adios Jole Blong