Panhandle Slim - Intellectual

[Verse 1]

Panhandle slim was the pride of the plains, the crabapple of his mother’s eye

He grew like a weed in the West Texas rain, always reaching for the sky

Sharp as a thorn on a prickly pear, quicker than lightning on his legacy mare

And at times more elusive than a panhandle bear

And funnier than a jackalope

The last out of seven birds of a feather, the last with the family name

So the young lonesome rooster roosted the birdhouse, the loneliest roost on the range

‘Cause horses need water and cotton needs rain

Cowboys need love or they’ll drive you insane

It sure gets lonesome out here on the plains

And it hurts to cry with dry eyes

But if you ever see him, he’ll tell you that he’s doing fine

As time goes by it slithers and frame starts to wither, but rust can’t touch an innocent mind

When you grow like a weed does on the West Texas plains, you’ll learn to love sunshine

Through tired eyes he dreams of girls from the city and the smell of myrtle perfume

And he looks to the stars, he sings a few bars to the lonesome man in the moon

How horses need water and cotton needs rain

Cowboys need love or they’ll drive you insane

It sure gets lonesome out here on the plains

And it hurts to cry with dry eyes

But if you ever see him, he’ll tell you that he’s doing fine

Slim’s hat landed next to his jaw on the ground when he saw her walking his way

With eyes like sapphire, she spoke to his soul without ever saying a thing

A single sunflower at golden hour, looking finer than a Georgia O’Keeffe

When you grow like a weed in the west Texas plains you know how to turn a new leaf

Just like horses need water and cotton needs rain

Cowboys need love or they’ll drive you insane

It sure gets lonesome out here on the plains

And it hurts to cry with dry eyes

But if you ever see him, he’ll tell you that he’s doing fine

Now these days when you see him, he’ll tell you that he’d doing fine