Whynot Minot

As if no one ever told ya Magic City North Dakota Was a town that met its quota Really quick A railroad track hacked through a prairie Packed with goods it liked to carry A smoking stack so very scary Black and thick Train was grounded can't reroute it So a simple town was founded Bedouins were all about it This would stick A tent went up and in five months The place went nuts with cowboys stuff This city is fitting for I Treasure tricks [Chorus] Why not Immot let us pray we will somehow find a way The waters might come rising but up high they'll never stay We'll make our rivals cuz our prides a tidal wave There's not a lot to save but we've got dignity for days We won't accept to defeat though tragedy repeats The tempest just a test that won't get the best of me I hear why you don't leave how could I leave the air I breathe Minot is a lighthouse in a sea of golden wheat Minot North Dakota Is like Dagoba to Yoda Heaven to Jehovah No offense The town went down the crapper Filled with gangsters and their flappers Everybody's lookin dapper In their threads Tunnels underground Never meant to be found Delivered booze barrel bound For the head Capone was a gnome Flooded folks with the foam Hard liquor in your dome Will leave you dead [Chorus] 1969 It was such a crazy time There wasn't any crime And there was peace The clouds gathered once again Black and think is this the end A flood is not my friend It is a beast To its cave it did retreat And the city found its feet But this catastrophic fleet Would never cease And that railroad of hill Would bring a chemical spill It made every body ill We need relief [Chorus] The story doesn't get better The city just gets wetter Somebody send a letter To mother nature Another flood in elven Had us praying up to heaven When will you be sending us Another savior 4000 homes are in the zone Now I'm living all alone Everything that I did own Well it's just vapor I got a trailer from Fema Cuz Minot's a marina It's my little Iwo Jima Sign the papers [Chorus]