Tom: G
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Maria lays in the tannin bed
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And reads the tuesday news
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She's down there every week at the
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Same time with the same ol' blues
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She reads the funny papers
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And then the classifieds
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And if she ain't too lseepy there's the
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Weather report on the flip side
[Bridge]
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And this kansas life is a hard one
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For a girl from Miami
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You're just staring out at the oil fields
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And that's all that I can see......
[Verse]
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Her old man's in the same place
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Since the company let him go.....
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Just sippin the pabst blue ribbon and
C D
Cussin amoco......
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Maria drives home
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From the tannin bed
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And the black clouds
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Roll across the sky....
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She pulls into the trailer park, pops the
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Trunk and calls the kids outside.....
[Chorus]
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Said there's a twister comin
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And you haven't got a clue....
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I ain't going to sit here in this double
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Wide and wait around for you
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Cause I'm taking the microwave oven
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And I'm takin the color tv.....
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And I'm packin up the chevy
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With the kids and what's left of me......
[Outro]
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This kansas life is a hard one
Bm C D
For a girl from miami
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Just staring out at the oil fields...
