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He was a shrimper out of San Leon bad language and bad teeth
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He had an oyster shell exterior even rougher underneath
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The deckhands called him captain the new comers called him stew
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The old salts called him catfish by the way his whiskers grew
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Tattoo on a sunburned arm said Ruby in a black heart
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Sometimes he’d wake up sweating and yell that name out in the dark
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She came down from Corpus Christi part woman part child
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And the way she moved could take your breath and it drove the rednecks wild
[Chorus]
C# G#
Beauty and pain are fleeting
A#m G#
They get washed to the sea
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Storms swell like Satan only God can wash you clean
[Verse 2]
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Catfish could not help himself and Ruby was not free
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He didn’t see her for what she was but what he wanted her to be
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He never answered questions about the future or the past
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Just another shot of whiskey saying nothing ever lasts
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The warnings had come early and the morning looked like blood
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The birds were wild and nervous like before the last big flood
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Everybody stared to the sea it took their breath
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Clouds grew dark and ominous looked like danger looked like death
[Chorus]
C# G#
Beauty and pain are fleeting
A#m G#
They get washed to the sea
A#m G# A#m
Storms swell like Satan only God can wash you clean
[Verse 3]
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Catfish started drinking like a hundred times before
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You ain’t going to get me this time he said you dirty whore
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He’d rode out every single storm that ever hit the coast
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But the worst storm raged inside him and haunted like a ghost
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They all started boarding up the windows nothing new
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But this one felt different and the storm clouds sailed steel blue
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I’m going to ride her out right here this boats my ball and chain
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Damn storm named Ruby ain’t no bitch I can’t tame
[Chorus]
C# G#
Beauty and pain are fleeting
A#m G#
They get washed to the sea
A#m G# A#m
Storms swell like Satan only God can wash you clean
[Verse 4]
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By the next morning it looked like a bad dream
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Somebody said that late that night they heard somebody scream
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The tide receded slowly and revealed the sunken wreck
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Bow lines still tied to the dock holes pounded through the deck
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Down below what they found is still talked about today
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Catfish sitting dead as life his skin all wet gray
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And when they came to take him they sounded the alarm
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The tattoo that said Ruby had all but vanished from his arm
[Outro]
C# G#
Beauty and pain are fleeting
A#m G#
They get washed to the sea
A#m G# A#m
Storms swell like Satan only God washes you clean
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