[Verse 1]

The rains and the field covered with tar

Can't get a price to see my way clear

I'm sittin' down at the Sugarland bar

You might as well bury my body right here

[Verse 2]

Tractor and combines out in the cold

Sheds piled high with the wheat we ain't sold

Silos filled with last year's crop

If something don't break here, we're all gonna drop

[Verse 3]

My wife's got another comin' in July

She's just layin' up in bed, all she does is cry, cry, cry

"Tommy, oh Tommy, I'm so alone

Tommy, oh Tommy, oh, won't you stay home?"

[Verse 4]

Pa don't say nothin' except when it rains

He sits by the window listenin' to the sound of passin' trains

Roarin' out at night carryin' an empty load

We got a whole lotta grain that ain't got nowhere to go

[Verse 5]

Well, if them prices don't get no higher

I'll fill this duster with gas and set these fields on fire

Sit up on the ridge where bluebirds fly

And watch the flames rise up against the Sugarland sky