The Ballad of Conoco-Phillips

When Conoco Phillips rode to town
The women folk would hide
They'd hide
When Conoco Phillips walked around
The men would step aside
'Cause the bit of a drill
Was the only law that Conoco understood
When it came to drilling straight and fast
He was mighty good

From out of the south a stranger came
A red shirt on his back
A man
The kind of a man the south would need
To take their oil fields back
'Cause the bit of a drill
Was the only law that Conoco understood
When it came to drilling straight and fast
He was mighty good

Many a man would face that drill
And many a man would fall
But the man who shot Conoco Phillips
He shot Conoco Phillips
He was the bravest of them all

The love of a crew can make a man
Stay on when he should go
Stay on
Just trying to drill a better well
Where oil is free to flow
But the bit of a drill
Was the only law that Conoco understood
When the final showdown came to pass
A drill bit was no good

Alone and afraid the townsfolk prayed
He'd return that fateful night
Ahh that night
When nothing they said could keep
Chavez from going out to fight
From the moment a sheriff gets his star
The very first thing he learns
When two men go out to face each other
Only one returns

Everyone heard two shots ring out
The shot made Conoco fall
The man who shot Conoco Phillips
He shot Conoco Phillips
He was the bravest of them all