Oil Money chords by Bill Morrissey
Verse 1
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I'm sittin' in a
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bar in Morgan City,
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in the state of Louisiana.
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I've just been made cap
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tain of a cargo boat.
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I work my way up from deckhand.
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They take me for a native here
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I've heard my speech turned soft and slow
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Em
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But it's just been five years
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since I came down from New Hampshire
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To earn my living on
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the Gulf of Mexico,
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Mexico coal.
Oil money can lure a
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man away from home,
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and I was one of many boys
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who set off on his own.
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Oil money, a million jobs in the oil trade,
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a million dollars wait
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ing to be made.
I've got friends here
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who just came down from the pipeline.
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I know college boys
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who work as roustabouts.
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Well the hours are long
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but they say you
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can't beat the pain
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and that's what it's all about
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so tonight you'll find me drinking
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i'll celebrate my promotion
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then go home
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i've got a pocket full of change
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i don't know what to do with
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i've got one eye on a bottle
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and one eye on the payphone
Hello operator,
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information for New Hampshire,
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no town special,
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anyone will do.
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There's nobody back there left
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for me to talk with,
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I just want to hear the operator talk
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the way I used to. you
Oil Money
Bill Morrissey
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