Tumbleweed Town Lyrics - Trent Willmon

He said, I'm going to West Texas 

They said, Hell, you've gone crazy 

Ain't nothing out there but coyotes and Comanches 

But he headed out anyway as far as he could 

Till the heat finally got to their mules 

He sold whiskey and cigars to passing through would be 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 a tumbleweed town 

They came in like gypsies to steal their black gold 

And the towns population increased hundred fold 

But they scattered like quail when all the oil wells ran out 

Left no trace of the riches they'd found 

Then some big shot from Dallas built a factory here 

Gonna put us back on the map but hell, that was back a few years 

Now the weeds have grown up and the building's falling down 

And you'd think they'd figured it out by now 

Hell, it's 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 

Now a few hay seeds and ranchers are still hanging in 

Too old to start over and too damn stubborn to quit 

And their kids all get restless waiting on that Greyhound 

So that they can get the hell out of this tumbleweed town 

But I love my tumbleweed town 

It's a tumbleweed town