D                  C
Maria lays in the tannin bed
 Bm            C      D
And reads the tuesday news
 Bm          C    Bm
She's down there every week at the
  C                             D
Same time with the same ol' blues

D                    C
She reads the funny papers
Bm    C          D
And then the classifieds

Bm     C             Bm          C
And if she ain't too lseepy there's the
                            D
Weather report on the flip side

[Bridge]
Bm         C             D
And this kansas life is a hard one
Bm         C        D
For a girl from Miami

Bm         C      Bm       C
You're just staring out at the oil fields
C              D
And that's all that I can see......

[Verse]
D                          C
Her old man's in the same place
Bm          C       D
Since the company let him go.....

Bm     C           Bm           C
Just sippin the pabst blue ribbon and
C         D
Cussin amoco......

D
Maria drives home
        C
From the tannin bed

Bm
And the black clouds
C               D
Roll across the sky....

Bm         C              Bm          C
She pulls into the trailer park, pops the
 C                        D
Trunk and calls the kids outside.....

[Chorus]
Bm           C        D
Said there's a twister comin
Bm           C        D
And you haven't got a clue....

Bm         C         Bm           C
I ain't going to sit here in this double
       D
Wide and wait around for you

Bm            C                D
Cause I'm taking the microwave oven
Bm         C            D
And I'm takin the color tv.....

Bm      C      Bm      C
And I'm packin up the chevy
   C                       D
With the kids and what's left of me......

[Outro]
Bm        C              D
This kansas life is a hard one
Bm         C         D
For a girl from miami
Bm      C        Bm         C
Just staring out at the oil fields...