well i was workin on my farm, about 1982
pullin up some corn and a little carrot too
when a low-flyin aeroplane, about a hundred feet high
dropped a buncha bales of somethin, some hit me in the eye.

so i cut a bale open and man was i surprised
a buncha large white baggies and big white rocks inside
so i took a little sample to my crazy brother joe,
he sniffed it up and kicked his heels and said "horton that's some blow!!"

bales of cocaine fallin from low flyin planes
i don't know who done dropped em, but i'll take em just the same
bales of cocaine fallin like a pourin rain
my life changed completely by a low flyin plane.

so i loaded up them bales in my pick-em-up truck
headed west to dallas, where i would try my luck.
i didn't have a notion if i could sell em there,
and thirty minutes later, i was a millionaire.

bales of cocaine fallin from low flyin planes
i don't know who done dropped em, but i'll take em just the same
bales of cocaine fallin like a pourin rain
my life changed completely by a low flyin plane.

and now i am a rich man, but i'm still a farmer too,
but i sold my farm in texas, bought a farm down in peru
and when i get so homesick, i think i'm goin insane,
i travel back to texas in a low-flyin plane.

bales of cocaine fallin from low flyin planes
i don't know who done dropped em, but i'll take em just the same
bales of cocaine fallin like a pourin rain
my life changed completely by a low flyin plane.

--"bales of cocaine" reverend horton heat