Levelland - James McMurtry, Jr.   from "Where'd You Hide the Body" 1995      Flatter than a tabletop   Makes you wonder why they stopped here   Wagon must have lost a wheel or they lacked ambition one   On the great migration west    Separated from the rest   Though they might have tried their best   They never caught the sun   So they sunk some roots down in the dirt    To keep from blowin' off the earth   Built a town around here   And when the dust had all but cleared   They called it Levelland, the pride of man   In Levelland      Granddad grew the dryland wheat   Stood on his own two feet   His mind got incomplete and they put in the home   Daddy's cotton grows so high   Sucks the water table dry   Rolling sprinklers circle round   Bleedin' it to the bone   And I won't be here when it comes a day    It all dries up and blows away   I'd hang around just to see   But they never had much use for me in Levelland   They don't understand me out in Levelland      And I watch those jet trails carving up that big blue sky   Coast to coasters watch 'em go   And I never would blame 'em one damn bit   If they never looked down on this   Not much here they'd wanna know   Just Levelland   Far as you can point your hand   Nothin' but Levelland       Mama used to roll her hair   Back before the central air   We'd sit outside and watch the stars at night   She'd tell me to make a wish   I'd wish we both could fly   Don't think she's seen the sky   Since we got the satellite dish and   I can hear the marching band   Doin' the best they can   They're playing "Smoke on the Water", "Joy to the World"   I've paid off all my debts   Got some change left over yet and I'm   Gettin' on a whisper jet   I'm gonna fly as far as I can get from   Levelland, doin' the best I can   Out in Levelland - imagine that