Tannin Bed Song - Shawn Mullins

作词：Shawn Mullins

作曲：Shawn Mullins

Maria lays in the tannin' bed

And reads the Tuesday news

She's down there every week at the same time

With the same ol' blues

She reads the funny papers

And then the classifieds

And if she ain't too sleepy

There's a weather report on the flip side

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 Paps Blue Ribbon

An' cussin' Amoco

Maria drives home from the tannin' bed

And the black clouds roll across the sky

She pulls into the trailer park and pops the

Trunk and calls the kids outside

Said There's a twister comin'

And you haven't got a clue

I ain't going to 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