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 the weather report on the flip side

And this Kansas life is a hard one for a girl from Miami

You're just staring 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 pabst blue ribbon and cussin amoco

Maria drives home from the tannin bed

And the black clouds roll across the sky

She pulls into the trailer park, 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 staring out at the oil fields