mullins, shawn
tannin bed song
maria lays in the tannin bed and reads the tuesday news shes down there every week at the same time with the same old blues she reads the funny papers and then the classifieds and if she ain't too sleepy there's the weather report on the flipside and this kansas life is a hard one for a girl from miami you're just starin out at the oil fields and that's all that i can see her old mans in the same place since the company let him go just sippin the pabst blue ribbon and cussin amoco maria drives home from the tannin bed and the black clouds roll across the sky she pulls into the trailor park pops the trunk and calls the kids outside said there's a twister commin and you haven't got a clue i ain't gonna sit here in this double wide and wait around for you cause i'm takin the microwave oven and i'm takin the color tv and i'm packin up the chevy with the kids and whats left of me this kansas life is a hard one for a girl form miami just starin out at the oil fields