Letra de The Gulf Of Mexico

[Intro]
Come and gather around me people
And a tale to you I'll tell
Of my father and his father
In the days before the spill
With an endless sky above them
And a restless sea below
And every blessing flowing from the Gulf of Mexico

[Verso 1]
From my Granddad with the shrimp boats
From the time that he was grown
And he scrimped and saved and bought himself
A trawler of his own
He was rough and he was ready
And he drank when he was home
And he made his family's living on the Gulf of Mexico

[Coro]
We were rolling
We were rolling
Past the deep blue water
He was rolling

[Verso 2]
Well my Daddy drove a crew boat
Hauling workers to the rigs
He was sick of mending nets
And couldn't stand the smell of fish
He drew a steady paycheck
20 years at Texico
When he died they spread his ashes
On the Gulf of Mexico

[Coro]

[Verso 3]
As for me, I think of nothing
Any grander than the day
That I stepped out on the drilling floor
To earn a roughneck's pay
Then one night I swear I saw the devil
Crawling from the hole
And he spilled the guts of hell out in the Gulf of Mexico

[Coro]