Chorus:

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Aransas Pass to Matagorda, Freeport to Galveston

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It didn't matter which side of that old state line that Port Arthur was on

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Them Cajun boys were lonesome for Louisiana, that's for sure

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And they'd say "Goodbye Texas, hello Port Artur"



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Back in '67 I worked the evening tour

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As a roughneck in the oil fields and I made eight bucks an hour

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That was sure good money then but I always had it spent

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Tuition down at Texas A&I was where it went



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Now throwing chain through the summer break was not the way to go

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So I took a job on a work boat in the Gulf of Mexico

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The port of Corpus Christi was where we let out from

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And the crew was mostly Cajun boys too old for Viet-Nam




Am              C          F           G
Aransas Pass to Matagorda, Freeport to Galveston

          Am                        C                   F               G
It didn't matter which side of that old state line that Port Arthur was on

     C                                  F               G
Them Cajun boys were lonesome for Louisiana, that's for sure

                C              F            C
And they'd say "Goodbye Texas, hello Port Artur"


Solo


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Evenings I would watch that big old sun sink in the waves

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And I'd write letters back home to my sweetheart everyday

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Them boys were nice enough but they'd had all of this state that they could stand

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They'd say "Texas, she's alright, but she ain't no Louisianne."



Am              C          F           G
Aransas Pass to Matagorda, Freeport to Galveston

          Am                        C                   F               G
It didn't matter which side of that old state line that Port Arthur was on

     C                                  F               G
Them Cajun boys were lonesome for Louisiana, that's for sure

                C              F            C
And they'd say "Goodbye Texas, hello Port Artur"

C              F            C
Goodbye Texas, hello Port Artur