I Like Texas........

[SATX*APhi]

Originally posted by queequek
Have you seen "Serving Sara"? It is definitely TEXAS.
I like Texas. Go Texas.

How is it definitely Texas? I haven't seen the movie, so I wouldn't know. Much obliged!

[SATX*APhi]

Oh, and Hootie, Texas is awesome. I have no idea why you wouldn't think to move back. We've got it all! We are our own little country.

[SATX*APhi]

Title: Drink One More Round
Artist: Cory Morrow (with Pat Green and Owen Temple)


I’ve been a drifter, ever since I could walk
I’ve been a connoisseur of beer since I could talk
My momma told me son, liquor ain’t no good
Ahhh, just another thing I never understood

So Drink one more round on me
Let’s sing an old melody
Hold your drinks up high, and toast the night
Hold your baby strong, help me sing that old song
I think that one more drink, might do me right

I like to spend my days, floating down the Guadalupe River
Drink a cold case of Lone Star beer
While my body shivers
At the end of the day, we stumble in to the nearest bar
We hang our pictures on the wall so you’ll think that we are stars (Are we stars? Oh yeah!)

So Drink one more round on me
Let’s sing an old melody
Hold your drinks up high, and toast the night
Hold your baby strong, help me sing that old song
I think that one more drink, might do me right

I’ve woken up, many mornings next to a coyote
Had to gnaw my arm off, Lord, I hit the door running
It’s a damn miracle, all that we’ve lived through
Anyone like another round or two

So Drink one more round on me
Let’s sing an old melody
Hold your drinks up high, and toast the night
Hold your baby strong, help me sing that old song
I think that one more drink, might do me right

[SATX*APhi]

"Songs About Texas"
by: Walt Wilkins
Performed by: Pat Green, Chris Wall, Cory Morrow


I sing songs about Texas
Sing them often as if she was some old lover I used to know
Wish I could follow them back to the homeland every time
I hear one on my radio

Twin fiddles playing in my memory
My daddy sang the wonders of old cow town
Silver haired and he's still there, under a sky so warm and fair
I tell you friend there's a song in every town

Sing me one more song about old San Antone
Seems like a dream now it was so long ago
Jerry Jeff Walker can be just like a coat from the cold
Yeah, I'm goin' home

Nothing short of the gospel hymns
I guess that's why folks keep writing 'em
And when I die, I want to go there too


Someday I hope to walk along heavens street
I'll still be looking for my taco meat and I swear
I hear a steel guitar rising in the air

Sing me one more song about old San Antone
Seems like a dream now it was so long ago
Ol' Guy Clark he can be just like a coat from the cold
I'm goin' home

When the night is real, real still
Swear I could hear a whippoorwill
She knows there's music in the dirt down there

Hill country rain is a cleansing thing
All I have to do is see one
And I'll be sitting in a shallow creek with nothing to do

Sing me one more song about old San Antone
Seems like a dream now it was so long ago
Jerry Jeff Walker can be just like a coat from the cold
I'm goin' home

Sing me one more song about those dusty plains
Them honky tonk angels and their lonely bee hive pain
Wish I was stowed away on some fast moving train, going home

[SATX*APhi]

Title: Storybook
Words and Music: Roger Creager

Sometimes I sit in my backyard. I kick back and drink Iced tea.
I stare all the way to the ocean and I dream of how it would be
If I were a ship captain somewhere or an old fashioned sailor at sea,
Or a stowed away pirate just down below hiding and praying the law don’t find me.
Maybe I’d sail from Nantucket chasing the great white whale.
Oh without a sound, I’d run him around then I’d bring old Ahab the tail.
Yeah I’d show old Ahab his tail.

But I’m not a sailor I’m just a man stuck here in the promised land.
Living hard and living free.
I’m a dreamer that’s what I got, Oh but here goes one last shot and I hope someday they’re dreaming about me.

Sometimes I dream I’m a cowboy around 1949.
I’d cross the border on horseback with a real close buddy of mine.
I’d know we’d run from trouble but I’m sure its what we’d find.
When you’re out of the frying pan into the fire, who cares what you leave behind.
I'll probably fall in love down there and I’d probably end up in jail.
When you fall in love with a rich man’s daughter, who’s going to go your bail?
Man I hate them Mexican jails.

But I’m not an outlaw I’m just a man stuck here in the promised land.
Living hard and living free.
I’m a dreamer that’s what I got, Oh but here goes one last shot and I hope someday they’re dreaming about me.

I’d love to go rafting the waters: riding the mighty Mississip.
I’d float around from town to town causing trouble then I’d give them the slip.
That water could take me back to the days of young Huck Finn.
I’d sleep all day and smoke all night and play tricks on old Jim.
Yeah I think I’d like old Jim.

But I’m not a runaway I’m just a man stuck here in the promised land.
Living hard and living free.
I’m a dreamer that’s what I got, Oh but here goes one last shot and I hope someday they’re dreaming about me.

[SATX*APhi]

Okay, so who is going to back me up?

Anyone?

[Shine]

I have a song...

The men in Texas are so cute
I wanna see them wear them boots
I would be so willing to bet
That men in Texas would make me sweat

Yee haW!

[SATX*APhi]

Shine!!!!!! HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! That was cute!!!!

[Shine]

*bows*

Thank you, thank you!

[AlphaSigOU]

Originally posted by lifesaver
I am all for the texas songs, but I feel that we should stop for a moment and pay due honor. I dont think the song is performed NEARLY enough.

Genlemen, remove your caps and place them over your chest, held in your right hand, facing the flag.

Ladies and gentlemen place your right hand over your left breast, facing the flag.

Non-residents will also stand, but not place their hands over their hearts, facing the flag.


"Texas, Our Texas"
William J. Marsh and Gladys Yoakum Wright: ...

And don't forget the Pledge of Allegiance to the Texas flag:

"Honor the Texas Flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one and indivisible!"

About the only place you'll see it done nowadays is at a Texas Masonic lodge meeting.

[adduncan]

Originally posted by AlphaSigOU


And don't forget the Pledge of Allegiance to the Texas flag:

"Honor the Texas Flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one and indivisible!"

About the only place you'll see it done nowadays is at a Texas Masonic lodge meeting.

My DAR chapter meeting incorporates the Texas pledge into their meeting ritual. Texans see themselves as holding dual citizenship, even in that organization!

Adrienne (current president of the Texas Insomniacs Club)

Originally posted by adduncan


My DAR chapter meeting incorporates the Texas pledge into their meeting ritual. Texans see themselves as holding dual citizenship, even in that organization!

Adrienne (current president of the Texas Insomniacs Club)

That's awesome!!

I'd love to do the Texas pledge at our meetings. We'll start each day with it in the Texas Wing of the GreekChat Life house!


Kitso
KS 361(can i be VP of the Texas Insomniacs Club?)

[tinydancer]

Our students say it every day right after the Pledge of Allegiance. I just wish the teachers would teach it correctly. It almost always comes out "honor TO the Texas flag" which wrong.

I love Texas and have lived here all my life!!

[APhiRattlerGal]

"Songs About Texas"
by: Walt Wilkins
Performed by: Pat Green, Chris Wall, Cory Morrow


I sing songs about Texas
Sing them often as if she was some old lover I used to know
Wish I could follow them back to the homeland every time
I hear one on my radio

Twin fiddles playing in my memory
My daddy sang the wonders of old cow town
Silver haired and he's still there, under a sky so warm and fair
I tell you friend there's a song in every town

Sing me one more song about old San Antone
Seems like a dream now it was so long ago
Jerry Jeff Walker can be just like a coat from the cold
Yeah, I'm goin' home

Nothing short of the gospel hymns
I guess that's why folks keep writing 'em
And when I die, I want to go there too


Someday I hope to walk along heavens street
I'll still be looking for my taco meat and I swear
I hear a steel guitar rising in the air

Sing me one more song about old San Antone
Seems like a dream now it was so long ago
Ol' Guy Clark he can be just like a coat from the cold
I'm goin' home

When the night is real, real still
Swear I could hear a whippoorwill
She knows there's music in the dirt down there

Hill country rain is a cleansing thing
All I have to do is see one
And I'll be sitting in a shallow creek with nothing to do

Sing me one more song about old San Antone
Seems like a dream now it was so long ago
Jerry Jeff Walker can be just like a coat from the cold
I'm goin' home

Sing me one more song about those dusty plains
Them honky tonk angels and their lonely bee hive pain
Wish I was stowed away on some fast moving train, going home

Adri,

I absolutly love this song!!! My cousin goes to school in Cali but she grew up here in tx (San Antonio to be exact) and she popped in the Pat Green CD to this song.......she called me sobbing saying how much she missed home. I will probably go to law school somewhere outside Texas after i get my BA and i'm pretty sure i will hear that song and cry too.

[tinydancer]

From today's Fort Worth Star-Telegram

see: http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/living/4594763.htm