The Texas Plains

Part 1:

Fields of cotton

Fluffy white

Growing in the blood-red soil

Fields of cotton

Across from corn

On top of beds of oil

Pumpjacks make strange scarecrows

But whatever

As long as the crop grows

Part 2:

Pumpjacks turning

Constantly churning

Bringing forth crude oil

All night they turn

All day they churn

Through night and day they toil

Pumpjacks rocking

Squeaking and talking

Pumpjacks on the Texas plain

Pumpjacks working

With faces smirking

Through the snow and the wind and the rain 

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