C                        F
On a drilling rig twenty miles at sea

    G7                         C
The lights on land are calling me

                        F
I'm way out here twenty miles from shore

    G7                               C
I'd give six months pay for a little pirogue



Well the twenty one days don't seem so long

G7               C
I miss Sherrie I wanna go home 

                        F
I'm way out here twenty miles from shore

    G7                               C
I'd give six months pay for a little pirogue


                          F
I'll bet Sherrie's making crawfish pie

G7                               C
Waiting for me with tears in her eyes 
 
                     F
But here I am twenty miles from shore

    G7                               C
I'd give six months pay for a little pirogue



Well the twenty one days don't seem so long

G7               C
I miss Sherrie I wanna go home 

                        F
I'm way out here twenty miles from shore

    G7                               C
I'd give six months pay for a little pirogue


                       F
The next boat by going back to land

G7                                      C
I'm gonna leave this rig minus one good hand

                                F
I don't like it out here twenty miles from shore

    G7                               C
I'd give six months pay for a little pirogue



Well the twenty one days don't seem so long

G7               C
I miss Sherrie I wanna go home 

                        F
I'm way out here twenty miles from shore

    G7                               C
I'd give six months pay for a little pirogue