Texas Overture

Wild flowers and gravel pit towers Pecan smoke two meat barbecue Shotgun shack by the roadside... Blacktop Texas is everything it will be Loop road tornados, hand grown tomatoes Post Office Lady, Flatonia Next Right Two horses nodding at a leafless tree Waiting in vain to be taken from the rain The Black Sky crow is walking on the road Walking on the road Pine Forest Cablevision Apartment Now Leasing Pop-a-Top Beverage & Bait Barn Fireworks - Buy One Get Five Free Texas is the land of the free Kreuz's is the king on the Lockhart rail line A hall full of trestle tables Fat soaked butcher paper Beans sauerkraut soda pop beer Rough paper hand towels in a roll on a stick sitting Upright on every table in the joint Water fountain bags of chips german 'tata salad Jalapenos in a brown bowl The fires in the pit have never been put out An old Texas lady slicing beef brisket Faded floral print dress covered by an apron Is that enough? she says She knows No, I say, more please Butcher paper one knife no fork white bread Vegetarians exit now please Texas is the land of the free No Teeth Barbecue, Rockdale, Texas The man in the window watches crop dusters next door If I lived in Hutto I'd nearly be home now Out among the farm roads Heading for the county line Looking for the water towers, bringing in the sheaves Texas is the land of the free Thelma's in Houston is closed on Sunday The best catfish in all the state of Texas The meat's pulled from the pit at the stroke of noon The line grows long in a shack in an urban field Sitting in the shadows of the chrome Man in a big hat born into a black suit says Pass a menu if you would please One slab of ribs, one pound any Meat Whole chicken 1/2 chicken ham ribs links beef Green beans pinto beans tata salad cole slaw Okra dirty rice or yams Two slices white bread sealed in a Ziploc Peach sweet potato apple/lemon chocolate butter pie Cheese peppers soda or tea Texas is the land of the free Salt Lick in Driftwood is no beer family style 3 meat platter bowl of beans slaw tata salad Onions pickles two slices white bread Texas style Order in order out order online Order by mail fax toll free anytime The waitress is a middle age ex-hippie chick Who's found her a life in a hill country family schtick Honey you will not leave eating only that much Bottomless refills more meat more beans whole lotta slaw please Texas is the land of the free