He said I'm goin' to west Texas 

I said hell you've gone crazy 

Ain't nothing' out there but coyotes and Comanches 

But he headed out anyways as far as he could 

He'd finally buried his roots 


He sold whiskey and cigars to passing through settlers 

But nobody wants to settle where there ain't no damn water 

Then they figured out a windmill could pump it from the ground 

And up sprang a tumbleweed town


Where the lonely wind blows like it's angry for being there 

A flat piece of stone in the middle of nowhere 

The town never grows cause nobody can keep their roots down 

It's just a tumbleweed town 


They came in like gypsies to steal the black gold 

The town's population increased a hundred fold 

But they scattered like quail when the oil wells ran out 

And left no trace of the riches they'd found 


Then some big shot from Dallas built a factory out here 

Gonna put us back on the map 

But hell that was back a few years

Now weeds have grown up and the buildings falling down 

You'd think they'd figured out by now 

It's just a tumbleweed town


Where the lonely wind blows like it's angry for being there 

A flat piece of stone in the middle of nowhere 

The town never grows cause nobody can keep their roots down 

It's just a tumbleweed town 


A few hayseeds and ranchers still hanging in 

Too old to start over to damn stubborn to quit 

And their kids all get restless waiting for a Greyhound 

So they can get the hell out of this tumbleweed town 


Tumbleweed town