Tannin Bed Song Lyrics - Soul's Core - 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 

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 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