The Gulf of Mexico Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[C]Come and gather 'round me people
And a tale to you [G]I'll [C]tell
Of my father and [F]his father
In the [C]days before the spill
With an endless sky above 'em
And a restless sea [G]below[C]
And every blessin' [F]flowing [C]from the Gulf
of Mex[F]ico

[Interlude 1]
[C][F][C][Gm][G][Gm][F]
[C]

[Verse 2]
Well my [C]Granddad worked
the shrimp boats
From [F]the time that he was [C]grown
And [G]he scrimped and saved
and bought him[Gm]self
[F]A trawler of his [C]own
He was rough and he was ready
And he [F]drank when he was [C]home
But he [G]made his family's livin'
on [F]the Gulf of [C]Mexico

[Verse 3]
He was [F]rollin'[C]
He was [F]rollin'[C]
'Cross the deep blue [F]water
He was [G]rollin'

[Interlude 2]
[C][F][C][F][C][F][G]
[C]

[Verse 4]
Well my [C]Daddy drove a crew boat
Haulin' [F]workers to the rig[C]s
He was [G]sick of mendin' nets
And couldn't [F]stand the smell of fish
[C]So he drew a steady paycheck
Twenty [F]years [C]from Texaco
When he [G]died [Gm]we spread his ashes
[G]On the [F]Gulf of [C]Mexico

[Verse 5]
He was [F]rollin'[C]
He [F]was [C]rollin'
[G]'Cross the [C]deep [Em]green [F]water
He [Am]was r[G]ollin'

[Interlude 3]
[C][F][C][G][F]
[C][G][C][F]
[C][G][F][G][C][F][C][F][C]
[F][C][F][G][C]
[G]As for

[Verse 6]
[C]me I dreamed of nothing
Any [F]grander than the [C]day
That I [G]stepped out on the drillin' floor
To [F]earn a [C]roughneck's pay
Then one night I swear
I saw the devil
[F]Crawlin' from the [C]hole
And he [G]spilled the guts of hell
out in [F]the Gulf of Mexico
[C]

[Verse 7]
We [F]were [C]rollin'
We [F]were [C]rollin'
'Cross the blood-red [G]wa [F]ter
water
We were [G]rollin'[C]