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