Wild flowers n gravel pit towers,
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Pecan-smoke 2 meat barbecue.
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Shotgun shack by the roadside,
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Blacktop Texas is everything it will be.
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Loop road tornadas, hand grown tomatas -
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Post Office Lady, Flatonia Next Right.
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Two horses noddin at a leafless tree,
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waitin in vain to be taken from the rain.
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Black Sky crow is walking on the road,
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walking on the road.
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Pine Forest Cablevision.
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Apartment Now Leasin.
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Pop-a-Top Beverage & Bait Barn.
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Fireworks - Buy One Get Five Free.
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Texas is the land of the free.
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Kreuz's is the king on the Lockhart rail line -
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Hall full of trestle tables,
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Fat soaked butcher paper,
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beans sauerkraut soda pop beer.
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Rough paper hand towels in a roll on a stick sittin
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upright on every table in the joint.
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Water fountain bags of chips german tata salad,
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jalapenos in a brown bowl.
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The fires in the pit have never been put out.
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Old Texas lady slicin beef brisket,
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faded floral print dress covered by an apron.
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Is that enough? she says.
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She knows.
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No, I say, more please.
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Butcher paper one knife no fork white bread -
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Vegetarians Exit Now Please.
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Texas is the land of the free.
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No Teeth Barbecue, Rockdale, Texas -
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Man in the window watches crop dusters next door.
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If I lived in Hutto I'd nearly be home now.
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Out among the farm roads,
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headin for the county line,
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lookin for the water towers, bringin in the sheaves -
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Texas is the land of the free.
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Thelma's in Houston is closed on Sunday.
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Best catfish in all the state of Texas.
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The meat's pulled from the pit at the stroke of noon.
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Line grows long in a shack in an urban field sittin in
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the shadows of the chrome.
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Man in a big hat born into a black suit says, Pass a
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menu if you would please.
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One slab of ribs, one pound any Meat.
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Whole chicken 1/2 chicken ham ribs links beef.
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Green beans pinto beans tata salad cole slaw,
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Okra dirty rice or yams.
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2 slices white bread sealed in a ziplock.
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Peach sweet potato apple/lemon chocolate butter pie,
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Cheese peppers soda or tea.
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Texas is the land of the free.
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Salt Lick in Driftwood is no beer family style -
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3 meat platter bowl of beans slaw tata salad,
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Onions pickles two slices white bread Texas style.
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Order in order out order online,
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Order by mail fax toll free anytime.
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The waitress is a middle age ex-hippie chick,
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who's found her a life in a hill country family
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schtick.
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Honey you will not leave eatin only that much.
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Bottomless refills more meat more beans whole lotta
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slaw please.
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Texas is the land of the free.
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