[00:13.50] Cisco Clifton had a fillin' station
[00:16.30] About a mile and a half from town
[00:18.96] Most cars passed unless they were out of gas
[00:22.55] So Cisco was always around
[00:25.23] Regular gas was all that it sold
[00:27.91] Except tobacco matches and oil
[00:30.67] Other than that he fixed lots of flats
[00:32.42] Keepin' Cisco rough hands soiled
[00:36.11] He'd wipe the gas and check the air
[00:39.64] In a hundred times a day
[00:41.53] He patiently gave directions
[00:43.31] On how to get to the state highway
[00:48.75] Usually he'd give 'em water
[00:50.57] Or a tyre or two some air
[00:53.22] And once a big black Cadillac
[00:55.06] Spent seven dollars there
[00:57.75] He'd give anybody anything they'd ask
[01:00.49] And lend anything he had
[01:02.21] His tools are tyres bumper jacks or wire
[01:04.96] To the good ones or the bad
[01:08.57] In wintertime there was a depot stove
[01:11.25] And a table for a checker game
[01:13.06] And every mornin' at sunup
[01:14.79] The same checker players came
[01:21.17] So Cisco Clifton's fillin' station
[01:23.03] Was always in the red
[01:25.70] Personal loans were personally gone
[01:28.46] But never a word was said
[01:31.15] One mornin' at eight, them checker players
[01:32.92] Heard a big bulldozer roar like a freight
[01:35.59] And Cisco said I hope my kids stay fed
[01:39.25] When they build that Interstate
[01:41.00] He'd managed to pay for property
[01:43.56] Where his little fillin' station sat
[01:46.21] And friends still came for checker game
[01:48.96] So Cisco settled for that
[01:51.68] He wouldn't say so but Cisco knew
[01:54.39] That the Interstate was too much to fight
[01:57.17] But to keep his will and to pay his bills
[02:00.59] He did odd jobs at night
[02:03.32] He still opened up at sunrise
[02:05.10] And the checker game went on
[02:07.81] The cars flew past on highest gas
[02:10.58] And the neighbors had sold out and gone
[02:14.09] If a car ever did go by he was lost
[02:17.84] And if they stopped they were treated the same
[02:21.44] So at Cisco Clifton's fillin' station
[02:25.96] There's a howdy and a checker game
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