McCrea Adams: Music/lyrics

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I was raising crops and cattle
but when it's too dry you just can't
So I headed up to Seattle
I heard there was work at the Boeing plant

I had a job making big old planes
but then I got laid off
Now I'm shivering here in the pouring rain
with the shakes and a real bad cough

I'm stuck up here where the sun don't shine
The rain keeps pourin' on me all the time
I came to get rich, but I ain't got a dime
I'm stuck where the sun don't shine

Had to take a job at Starbucks
where my boss has got peach fuzz
Got a ring in his nose, and he says life sucks
well I know that mine sure does

If I had the fare I'd catch the very next stage
somewhere there's a drought
But you can't save a nickel on minimum wage
I don't think I'll ever get out

They got fancy coffee and long-haired boys
some kinda music that sounds like noise
Can't even tell the women from the men
lord, I can't wait to see Texas again . . . Texas again

Even the bars just give me the blues
there ain't no honky-tonks here
Yuppies drinking something called microbrews
what the hell is raspberry beer?