this 12th oilfield country song when I left trans ocean in the deep water division it was cause my brother Tim burns a very well known name in this p n a industry in the gulf of America everyone who I came in contact with in offices and way out in the damn field always ask me the same damn question an the question was are you Tim burns little brother or they jus say you must or gotta be kin to Tim burns cause y’all look just a like but he just has a few extra pounds so I just kinda grin an say hell yeah cause I couldn’t lie about it but I wouldn’t lie about it anyways all I’ve heard is good things an he’s one of the best so when I came to p n a to work for express they hired me as a pump operator had 10 years in drilling but didn’t know shit about this type work and I can remember one of the first times they was ready to trip pipe an I was just there in a daze thinking to myself then I asked a question it was how we gonna pick up pipe with these elevators with out no top drive , bails or no damn draw works and there reply was with these two part slings with d rings hooked to them there elevators attached to the damn tha damn crane kinda felt kind of stupid but then I thought about it an was thinking to myself what the fuck so I kinda still had a little leverage cause my high profile brother Tim burns the well known ,then I kinda got thrown to the wolves so I had to learn fucking quick couldn’t make my brother look bad caught a few jobs then got on my brothers crew did subsea work for about a year and a half or hell might have even been two years so really didn’t learn much at the time didn’t really give a fuck I was making a check then as time progressed got to wear I was really trying then I was always overlooked so I lost confidence in myself an just felt like maybe it wasn’t meant to be then I got really good at what I do then left express and went to tetra they hired me as a junior supervisor sent me on a jab job with two senior supervisors rickey Roberts an Todd deway, but then Ricky had to go in cause an emergency and we went one crew company man Roy didnt want Todd so he got shipped in keep in mind they was supposed to be helping me learn all the paperwork and all that other computer shit but there I was figuring it out on my own that’s where I meet Gerald he was about 21 and already had 8 babies I don’t think Joe bob was even out diapers yet still eating bananas and green beans out them little bitty baby jars back to my story I got the job done was headed in an got some bad news so I gave the paperwork to one of the guys to bring in headed back to Mississippi cause it was late the office wasn’t even close to being open then got a phone call it was the operations manager asked where was the paperwork told him they brought it in an my wife was diagnosed with cancer and he said he don’t give a shit that paperwork comes first I don’t know about you but my family comes first his name was grant Barnes an still aint seen him till this day
