East Van Buren

Hucksters be a lurin

Unsuspecting tourists

And naive purists

To be

Potential jurists

In the surest

Aint no curist

Con of them all

The Westward Ball

Not a ball

No not at all

But neither

was it dusty

Dry Oklahoma

After all

And that made

the dusty difference

Made the con

No work at all

right willin

For their heads

To be fillin

If dreamin bout

The money

To get ya

Rest the way out

To beeee yooooteeee full

California

Never to quite

Get it right

Drinkin

Every night

Doomed

To this mirage

In the desert