John Baumann - Midland

http://bit.ly/MeQhzW - iTunes https://twitter.com/#!/JEBtunes https://www.facebook.com/JEBtunes http://johnedwardbaumann.bandcamp.com/album/west-texas-vernacular Written by John Edward Baumann johnedwardbaumann.com Off the EP West Texas Vernacular facebook.com/JEBtunes @JEBtunes Lyrics: "Midland" Written by John Edward Baumann You come from West Texas in a Mercedez Benz With your Louis Vuitton And your debutante friends Your stepmom came with ya to watch you unpack she'll go home in the Gulfstream when it's time to go back to Midland Midland Your daddy, he's been working since the day he turned 18 working for his father turning crude to gasoline in the great 1980's when the boom came to town and all them big ole buildings they just shot out of the ground Out in Midland Midland You're down to three houses for Greek sisterhood how bout them Tri Deltas We all knew ya would you're all set to major in fashion merchandise but you'll drop it in the spring for a boy from Alamo Heights of course he will be handsome and he'll have a good last name y'all can sit in Jerry's box at the Cowboy football game take him home for Christmas take him out to see the rigs where the roughnecks run the Auger and dance a black gold jig out in Midland Midland Some years down the road with your scripture rehearsed you'll baptize that newborn baby at the Presbyterian Church he'll be too young to know what is underneath that soil but you didn't either so just anoint his head with oil out in Midland Out in Midland Midland Midland Written by John Edward Baumann