Well it come in from the southwest
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In the middle of the night
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Hey loomed over Lubbock
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What a gawd awmighty sight
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Yeah it dipped down into the darkness
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All crazy out of control
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Hey throwed around that panhandle town
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Till ft couldn't throw ft around no more
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Yeah some blamed secret government
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Projects
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Some blamed it on the president
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Some blamed wind from the wings of Jesus
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Just flappin round heaven sent
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Yeah but I don? know (he don't know)
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But I don't know (he don't know)
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They don't know ... huh huh
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But when a high pressure zone...
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Hits a low
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Somethin gotta give ... yeah somethin
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Gotta go
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An like a vampire over the broadway
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It showed no moral code
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It'd lake out a mighty church of gawd
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And leave a honky tonk by the road
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And tiny creatures went flying
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Right out of prairie dog town
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Smack up against the great plains life
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Little bones in the rain failin down
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Yeah some blamed communist sabotage
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Some blamed rednecks on the right
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Some blamed teenage restlessness
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Rock n roll gone berserk in the night
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Yeah but I don't know (it's a UFO)
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But I don't know (it's a UFO)
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They don't know ... huh
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But when a high pressure zone...
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Hits a low
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Somethin gotta give ... yeah somethin
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Gotta go
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Well this hub-bub on the hub
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Laid a city to its knees
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Sweet memories beneath the rubble
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Shattered glass and broken dreams
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Yeah but in that wake of destruction
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This dazed and battered town
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Pulled its ass up out of the debris
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And put its feet back up on the ground
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Yeah some said it was the ghost of
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Buddy
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Some said the ghost of Cain
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Some said the soul of the prodigal son
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Is just stumblin back home again
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Yeah but I don't know (Its a tornado)
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But I don't know (it's a tornado)
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Maybe so, huh
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But when a high pressure zone...
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Hits a low
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Some gotta give ahhhh...
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Some gotta go
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Lubbock Tornado
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Terry Allen |