Port City Blues

Verse 1

Well, I pulled my shrimp boat up on the beach
And started singing Port City Blues.
And soon people started comin' around
To hear me sing Port City Blues.

And so my shrimp boat soon became a stage
For singing my Port City Blues.
And the shrimping's gotten harder, but it's all the rage
To hear me sing Port City Blues.

Chorus

Port Aransas, Port Lavaca, Port Isabel,
And a dozen places in between.
Yeah, the shrimping's down to scraping by, but life is good
Just as long as I can sing.
Just as long as I can sing.

Verse 2

So I went away to Houston and I got a gig
Singing my Port City Blues.
And Houston's kinda friendly but it's very big
And soon I really did have the blues.

So I went back home to my shrimp boat stage
Singing my Port City Blues.
And folks'll come from Houston 'cause it's all the rage
To hear me sing Port City Blues.

[REPEAT CHORUS]

Verse 3

Well my cousin Jimmy took another way
With his boat when the shrimping failed.
Took a long trip south, and the Coast Guard says
That his cargo didn't have shrimp tails.

But I'm sittin' down here on my shrimp boat stage
Singing my Port City Blues.
Even Jimmy heard in prison that it's all the rage
To hear me sing Port City Blues.

[REPEAT CHORUS]

Verse 4

Bless my soul, is that a hurricane
Comin' messin' with the things I do?
Up-coast, down-coast, all the same
Port cities gonna sing the blues.

I landed two blocks inland on my shrimp boat stage
Singing my Port City Blues.
And a hurricane won't stop me 'cause it's still the rage
To hear me sing Port City Blues.

Chorus

Port Aransas, Port Lavaca, Port Isabel,
And a dozen places in between.
Yeah, the shrimping's down to scraping by, but life is good
Just as long as I can sing.
Just as long as I can sing.

Port O'Connor, Freeport, Port Mansfield and
A dozen places in between.
Yeah, the shrimping's down to scraping by, but life is good
Just as long as I can sing.

Corpus Christi, Texas City, and Galveston,
And a dozen places in between.
Yeah, the shrimping's down to scraping by, but life is good
Just as long as I can sing.

Matagorda, Rockport, Port Bolivar,
And a dozen places in between.
Yeah, the shrimping's down to scraping by, but life is good
Just as long as I can sing.

Seadrift, Seabrook, Port Arthur and
A dozen places in between.
Yeah, the shrimping's down to scraping by, but life is good
Just as long as I can sing.

Aransas Pass, Brownsville, Palacios and
A dozen places in between.
Yeah, the shrimping's down to scraping by, but life is good
Just as long as I can sing.

Port Aransas, Port Lavaca, Port Isabel,
And a dozen places in between.
Yeah, the shrimping's down to scraping by, but life is good
Just as long as I can sing.
Just as long as I can sing.
Just as long as I can sing.
Just as long as I can sing.