Shawn Mullins

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 man's 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 aint 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 what's left of me
This Kansas life is a hard one for a girl from Miami
Just starin out at the oil fields