Yoakum County & the Red Sand
Photos and Poem by Connie Webb

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The beauty of a field of cotton 
with trees in the distance and a blue sky above

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Storm clouds gather in the distance

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                                                                              The Red Sand                                                    

The settlers came and plowed the land
And watched the cotton grow,
And then in spring they stood in awe
And watched the red sand blow.

And soon the roughnecks drilled for oil;
At night their oilrigs glowed
They faced the dry hot desert wind
And cursed red sands that blowed.
 

 A town sprang up, and homes were built
With yards men had to mow.
But still in spring, the prairie breathes;
Men hide as red sands blow.

A time will come: men are no more
And oil no longer flows.
But still the Earth will puff and sigh
And still, the red sand blows.

© May 2003 Connie Webb
 

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