to the tune of "SHADY GROVE"
collected in Kansas by the WPA Writers Project
I did this on an LP for Kicking Mule___Songs Of The Heartland__
THE KANSAS CYCLONE
I used to own the Double D but I'm punchin' steers today,
A twistin' cyclone come along and blew my ranch away.
It struck the first of April and as it's goin' hence,
It took the barn and chicken house and a mile or two of fence.
It took the wife, it took the kids, the cows and horses too,
It never left me nothin', but the mortgage--and that is due.
And that is why I'm punchin' on the Kansas plains today,
Paying for the cattle that the cyclone blowed away.
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