Robert Earl Keen – Levelland (Ukulele)

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Flatter than a tabletop

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Makes you wonder why they stopped here

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Wagon must have lost a wheel or they lacked ambition one

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On the great migration west

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Separated from the rest

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Though they might have tried their best

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They never caught the sun

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So they sunk some roots down in the dirt

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To keep from blowin' off the earth

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Built a town around here

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And when the dust had all but cleared

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They called it Levelland, the pride of man

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In Levelland

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Granddad grew the dry land wheat

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Stood on his own two feet

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His mind got incomplete and they put him into the home

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Daddy's cotton grows so high

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Sucks the water table dry

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Rollin' sprinklers circle by

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Bleedin' them to the bone

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And I won't be here when it comes a day

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It all dries up and blows away

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I'd hang around just to see

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But they never had much use for me in Levelland

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They don't understand me out in Levelland

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And I watch those jet trails carvin' up that big blue sky

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Coast to coasters watch 'em go

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And I never would blame 'em one damn bit

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If they never looked down on this

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Not much here they'd wanna know

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Just Levelland

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Far as you can point your hand

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Nothin' but Levelland

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Mama used to roll her hair

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Back before the central air

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We'd sit outside and watch the stars at night

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She'd tell me to make a wish

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I'd wish we both could fly

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Don't think she's seen the sky

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Since we got the satellite dish and

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I can hear the marching band

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Doin' the best they can to play

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"Smoke on the Water", "Joy to the World"

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I've paid off all my debts

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Got some change left over yet and I'm

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Gettin' on a whisper jet

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I'm gonna fly as far as I can get from Levelland

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doin' the best I can

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Out in Levelland - imagine that