{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2349133,"song":"Port Artur","artist":"McKay Brothers","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11486316-port-artur-chords-by-mckay-brothers/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2349133?type=chord","rating":0.01025,"votes":0,"content":"[tab][ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAransas Pass to Matagorda, Freeport to Galveston[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Am[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt didn't matter which side of that old state line that Port Arthur was on[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                                  [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThem Cajun boys were lonesome for Louisiana, that's for sure[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd they'd say \"Goodbye Texas, hello Port Artur\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]             [ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBack in '67 I worked the evening tour[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]                                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAs a roughneck in the oil fields and I made eight bucks an hour[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                   [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThat was sure good money then but I always had it spent[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTuition down at Texas A&I was where it went[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                               [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nNow throwing chain through the summer break was not the way to go[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo I took a job on a work boat in the Gulf of Mexico[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe port of Corpus Christi was where we let out from[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd the crew was mostly Cajun boys too old for Viet-Nam[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAransas Pass to Matagorda, Freeport to Galveston[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Am[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt didn't matter which side of that old state line that Port Arthur was on[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                                  [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThem Cajun boys were lonesome for Louisiana, that's for sure[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd they'd say \"Goodbye Texas, hello Port Artur\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                   [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nEvenings I would watch that big old sun sink in the waves[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]                               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I'd write letters back home to my sweetheart everyday[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]C[/ch]                                      [ch]F[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThem boys were nice enough but they'd had all of this state that they could stand[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThey'd say \"Texas, she's alright, but she ain't no Louisianne.\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAransas Pass to Matagorda, Freeport to Galveston[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Am[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt didn't matter which side of that old state line that Port Arthur was on[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                                  [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThem Cajun boys were lonesome for Louisiana, that's for sure[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd they'd say \"Goodbye Texas, hello Port Artur\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nGoodbye Texas, hello Port Artur[/tab]","plain_text":"","chords":["Am","C","F","G","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}