Growing up on the banks of Bayou blue
Was that old man Stevens owned everything around
But nobody really knew him ‘cause he lived way out of town
Well he built that plant back in eighty three
When the River was dry and work was cheap
And I ain’t sure who’s in the worst shape today
Bayou Blue or Stevens Chemical USA
Cause that old man never put a nickel in
That he didn’t take a dollar back out again
Never mind what the folks who worked there had to say
‘Cause sometimes they just dry up and fade away
And living ain’t living on minimum wage
So you sign your name on a rich man's page
Then it's 8 10 12 til you just can't count no more
Well they bought up the people like they bought up the land
With pretty brick houses and a check in their hand
And a dozen other things they might not have to pay
Cuz sometimes we just dry up and fade away
Daddy burned rods for the 198
When the fishing dried up and the bills were late
And each day he’d come home and fall right through his chair
Wheezing from the smoke and the sulfur in the air
Now I don’t claim to be a righteous man
But somebody round here got blood on his hands
It don’t always take a bullet to put a man in his grave
Sometimes they just dry up and fade away
And living ain’t living on minimum wage
So you drive to town and you sign that page
And you're glad for the work but you know damn well the cost
There ain't nothing wrong with owning some land
And making a dime off the working man
All we wanna do is go home at the end of the day
And live til we’re done not dry up and fade away
I went off to college and made a few friends
A little bluer round the collar than most of them
But got over it quick - at least that’s what they say
Married a do good Stevens girl from down my way
She never liked the old man anyway
We left Texas when the kids were grown
I took a job with her daddy and we moved back home
Now I sit in this office making sure things go our way
And watch some good ol boys I used to know fade away
Sometimes they look at me and then they walk away
As if I’ve gone and sold my soul away
I can't blame en none but man if they only knew
We got the old man’s money pretty soon we’ll have his company too
Yeah one day soon he’s gonna up and die
And I’ll fall to my knees and look up at the sky
Cuz I’ll know somewhere daddy’s smiling down my way
When I’m running Bayou Blue….Chemicals USA
Cause I’ll be damned if anybody else dries up and fades away
Yeah, I”ll be damned if anybody else dries up and fades away
