I Like Texas........
 

I am in a Texas loving mood and just had to post this so that you all can know why we all love Texas so much!


I Like Texas
by Pat Green
© 1995 Dead Horse Music (BMI)

From Dalhart to Del Rio and out El Paso way, well I'll be doin' fine on Houston time, and when the sun sets on the Copano Bay, well from way up where the Red River flows, on down to the Rio Grande, I was born a native Texican, and I'm proud to say that I am.

Yeah I like Texas, Ain't it fine here,
Like to pick my guitar down in Luckenbach, and drink that Shiner Bock beer,
Yeah I like Texas, man there ain't no doubt,
just listen to me 'cause I know what I'm talkin' about.

Well there's old dancehalls and little cafe's, where you can get a taste of the Lone Star State, strap on your boots and have yourself a laugh or two, well there's no line dancin' just straight romancin', that hill country lore is what I fancy, where streams run clear and Lord the skies they are so blue.

Yeah I like Texas, Ain't it fine here,
Like to pick my guitar down in Luckenbach, and drink that Shiner Bock beer,
Yeah I like Texas, man there ain't no doubt,
just listen to me 'cause I know what I'm talkin' about.

It's a two day old burrito on a lukewarm beer to go, on the Sunday side of a road trip weekend, and Lordy I was feelin' so low, when somebody flipped on the jukebox, and I heard old Bob Wills say, "won't cha' stay all night stay a little longer", so I held on another day.

What I Like About Texas
Sung by Jerry Jeff Walker & Gary P. Nunn

You ask me what I like about Texas
I tell you it's the wide open spaces!
It's everything between the Sabine and the Rio Grande.
It's the Llano Estacado, It's the Brazos and the Colorado;
Spirit of the people down here who share this land!

You ask me what I like about Texas
It's the big timber roundneck Nacadoches
It's driving El Camino Real into San Antone
It's the Riverwalk and Mi Tierra Dancing to the Cotton-eyed Joe
It's stories of the Menger Hotel and the Alamo!
(You remember the Alamo!)

Hey, you ask me what I like about Texas
It's Blue Bonnet and Indian paint brushes
Swimming in the sacred waters of Barton Springs
It's body surfing at Freo
It's Saturday night in Del Rio!
Driving across the border for some cultural exchange!

It's another burrito, it's a cold Lone Star in my hand!
It's a quarter for the jukebox, boys,
Play the Sons of the Mother Lovin' Bunkhouse Band!

WHOOOOOOOP!!!!!!
 

Y'all can't hear me....but i'm singin along to Winamp as loud as i can!!!!!

(It's the Stories of the Menger hotel and the Alamo!!!!!)

SA Baby!!!!!

Kitso
KS 361 times i can sing these songs and never get tired of them!!

Texas sounds nice. :)

it's songs like those that make me wanna move to texas ;) after graduation i am moving out west to CA or Oregon, i'll have to stop in texas on the way and see it first hand!

Ooooh Shine, Texas is beyond "nice." It's fantastic, it's remarkable, it's bad @$$! :)

And KappaT, you definitely need to make a stop. There's no place like home. ;)

Tarzan, we should go to Texas and visit these crazy kids.

LOL

hehe,

Beer's on me ladies :D

Dang, won't I be the most popular guy in the bar with these lovely ladies hanging out with me??

KiTso
KS 361

:o

Most definitely! Shine, you aren't even that far away! Hurry and come on down!

Did Shine go bye-bye??

Sorry, got caught up in an IM. :)

Yeah, I'm only a 17 hour drive away!

EEK!

I'm happy just to visit ya'll every once in awhile. I wish Texas would just annex Oklahoma:D

OK, I'm in....
 

Southbound 35
by Pat Green
© 1995 Dead Horse Music (BMI)

What the hell am I doing down in Kansas City, I know damn well it ain't where I belong, think I'll quit my job come 5 o'clock, find my lonely way back home, My baby said just what are you trying to prove here, do you really want to leave me here alone, I said I'm staring at this ocean full of Yankees, and I'd rather be in Texas on my own.

So we were southbound 35, we were headed down the road,
hit the border by the morning, let Texas fill my soul,
yeah let Texas fill my soul.

The tears start to flow about the time that I was leaving, she said I guess you better take me along, God might have made me born a Yankee, but it's time that I made Texas my home, So we loaded her stuff into my pickup, said good-bye to all my friends, called my brother down in Austin, said I'm headed home again.

She had her feet up on the dashboard, she was holding my hand and wearing only a smile, she said it's gonna be hard to start all over, but the feeling I have will make it all worth while.

And who could forget....
 

Corpus Christi Bay
by Robert Earl Keen Jr.

I worked the rigs from three til midnight
On the Corpus Christi Bay
Id get off and drink til daylight
Sleep the mornin away
I had a plan to take my wages
Leave the rigs behind for good
But that life it is contagious
And it gets down in your blood


I lived in Corpus with my brother
We were always on the run
We were bad for one another
But we were good at having fun
We got stoned along the seawall
We got drunk and rolled a car
We knew the girls at every dancehall
Had a tab at every bar

If I could live my life all over
It wouldnt matter anyway
Cause I never could stay sober
On the Corpus Christi Bay


My brother had a wife and family
You know he gave Tem a good home
But his wife thought we were crazy
And one day we found her gone
We threw here clothes into the car trunk
Her photographs her rosary
We went to the pier and got drunk
And threw it all into the sea


Now my brother lives in Houston
He married for the second time
He got a job with the union
And its keeping him in line
He came to Corpus just this weekend
It was good to see him here
He said he finally gave up drinkin
Then he ordered me a beer