Out of work I took a job as a
Hand on a boat
In a town called Matlache

On my first day off I was
Sitting drinking beer
At a bar called the dock of the bay


When in walked a woman
That every man eyed

But her eyes stayed right on me
The guy next to me he
Whispered real low

There's more to her than you can see

She comes from the back bay

Better stay away
She lives up on the back bay
And then he moved on away


Well she came and sat down
And the hours flew by

And the beer flowed just like the tide
The sun went down and the moon came up
And there was fire in her eyes


She took me for a ride in the white moonlight
In a boat like I've never seen

I was seeing things that I've never seen

She said you're going to the back bay

You're gonna see my ways
Cause there's magic on the back bay
You might even want to stay


Well I woke in the morning to
Her house boat rocking

Eye to eye with an old brown hound
There was fresh mullet frying
And strange birds crying

And no one else for miles around

I saw her standing there with

The breeze in her hair
I knew I never wanted to leave
I saw all my things around I

Knew she'd been back into town
And already mad the move for me


She said you're moving to the back bay
You're gonna see my ways
You're gonna love it on the back bay

And you're always gonna stay