Tonart: C major•
Verse 1
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Come and gather 'round me people
G
C
And a tale to you I'll tell
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Of my father and his father
C
In the days before the spill
With an endless sky above 'em
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C
And a restless sea below
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C
And every blessin' flowing from the Gulf
Interlude 1
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F
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Gm
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Gm
F
C
Verse 2
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Well my Granddad worked
the shrimp boats
F
C
From the time that he was grown
G
And he scrimped and saved
F
C
A trawler of his own
He was rough and he was ready
F
C
And he drank when he was home
G
But he made his family's livin'
F
C
on the Gulf of Mexico
Verse 3
F
C
He was rollin'
F
C
He was rollin'
F
'Cross the deep blue water
Interlude 2
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F
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F
C
F
G
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Verse 4
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Well my Daddy drove a crew boat
F
C
Haulin' workers to the rigs
G
He was sick of mendin' nets
F
And couldn't stand the smell of fish
C
So he drew a steady paycheck
F
C
Twenty years from Texaco
G
Gm
When he died we spread his ashes
G
F
C
On the Gulf of Mexico
Verse 5
F
C
He was rollin'
F
C
He was rollin'
G
C
Em
F
'Cross the deep green water
Am
G
He was rollin'
Interlude 3
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F
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G
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G
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F
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G
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Verse 6
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me I dreamed of nothing
F
C
Any grander than the day
G
That I stepped out on the drillin' floor
F
C
To earn a roughneck's pay
Then one night I swear
I saw the devil
F
C
Crawlin' from the hole
G
And he spilled the guts of hell
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out in the Gulf of Mexico
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Verse 7
F
C
We were rollin'
F
C
We were rollin'
G
F
'Cross the blood-red wa ter
water
G
C
We were rollin'
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