Odessa - Sam Baker

He was an Odessa boy with a daddy in the money

Played for Mojo back in the boom

Drove a Corvette

Took what he wanted

People learned to give him lots of room

He never learned to work but that never really mattered

Cause the dark crude flowed

The wild oats scattered

Dark crude flowed

He fought he flattered

And he got what he wanted

It was the only thing that mattered

Life was easy

The big jacks pumped

Pulling cash from the Permian field

Cabinets full of high-grade scotch

Garage full of high-speed steel

He never learned to work but that never really mattered

Cause the dark crude flowed

The wild oats scattered

Dark crude flowed

He fought he flattered

And he got what he wanted

It was the only thing that mattered

He killed a girl when he rolled the Corvette

Daddy’s money made her lawyers go away

His mother bought vodka with all that cash

She kind of knew

She kind of knew

He never learned to work but that never really mattered

Cause the dark crude flowed

The wild oats scattered

Dark crude flowed

He fought he flattered

And he got what he wanted

It was the only thing that mattered

He’s an old man now

Lives on his dead daddy’s place

Never took a wife

He is going to die without a trace

See he loved the girl who was penned in the Vette

Talks to her every day

Her face was blood and diamonds

He remembers her that way

He never learned to work but that never really mattered

Cause the dark crude flowed

The wild oats scattered