littlefield

i was born in '37

a sharecropper's son

out on the great south plains

there in the suburbs of a dryland cotton patch

in the middle of a west texas rain

and for all of you folks out there in radioland

who don't know what a west texas rain is

well that's what's commonly known as a sandstorm

remember that

you'll need it later

i guess times were hard but livin' was easy

we always found a way to survive

fried chicken and gravy and an old tune off the guitar

was enough to keep a country boy alive

and on saturday afternoons it was lester pruitt's the picture show"