Levelland Lyrics - Keen Robert Earl

Levelland - James McMurtry, Jr. 

from "Where'd You Hide the Body" 1995 

Flatter than a tabletop 

Makes you wonder why they stopped here 

Wagon must have lost a wheel or they lacked ambition one 

On the great migration west 

Separated from the rest 

Though they might have tried their best 

They never caught the sun 

So they sunk some roots down in the dirt 

To keep from blowin' off the earth 

Built a town around here 

And when the dust had all but cleared 

They called it Levelland, the pride of man 

In Levelland 

Granddad grew the dryland wheat 

Stood on his own two feet 

His mind got incomplete and they put in the home 

Daddy's cotton grows so high 

Sucks the water table dry 

Rolling sprinklers circle round 

Bleedin' it to the bone 

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

It all dries up and blows away 

I'd hang around just to see 

But they never had much use for me in Levelland 

They don't understand me out in Levelland 

And I watch those jet trails carving up that big blue sky 

Coast to coasters watch 'em go 

And I never would blame 'em one damn bit 

If they never looked down on this 

Not much here they'd wanna know 

Just Levelland 

Far as you can point your hand 

Nothin' but Levelland