God Bless Texas - Paul Heaton

Good old Texas

Lazy old days in the Amarillo haze in my work vest

Sat out on the porch

Wonderin' which country to torch next

God bless Texas

Where the only real trace of a brown or black face is in a bird’s nest

Where bears are for shooting and the world’s for polluting, not protest

And for every Tom Sawyer idling by the bank

There’s a gas pipe facing East and a sewage tank

For every Rio Grande rolling South

There’s another Thames or Nile frothing up at the mouth

So when soy sauce comes falling from the trees

Maple syrup’s weighing down the bees

Tabasco bleeds from every hand you squeeze

Let the Lone Star state get down on hands and knees

Good old Texas

Sat doin' nothin' while the world’s up coughin' asbestos

Just a Colt .45 and a Jim Bowie knife to protect us

God bless Texas

Ask any peckerwood if the Mississippi flood’ll affect us

Now that old Jim Crow is just an ordinary Joe in a Lexus

And when vinegar lines the riverbank to rust

Salt and pepper line your lungs to dust

Sugar lines your inside to a crust

And you’re living life in peace but only just

So when soy sauce comes falling from the trees

Maple syrup’s weighing down the bees

Tabasco bleeds from every hand you squeeze

Let the Lone Star state get down on hands and knees

And as the burger van drives the buffalo from the plain

The cowboy feels so stuffed that he doesn’t complain

Peanut butter’s coursing through his veins

And chilli stings his skin every time it rains

And it’s brown sauce seeping from the bough

Mayonnaise comes leaking from the cow

Mustard from the nipple of the sow

And they’re singing, «God bless Texas», but God knows how

And they’re singing, «God bless Texas»;

God knows how

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God knows how

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God knows how

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God knows how

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