Top Ten Texas songs of all Time! (Houston, Austin: 2015, house)

[blueskies49]

Yes, that's another one. I LOVE that song! And it's fun when they play it at the Texas Rangers baseball games!

[southeasttexas]

Doug Supernaws "Red and the Rio Grand"
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One lone star waving in the wind
A longhorn standing proud behind a rusty barbed wire fence
Cowboy hats and hearts that never bend
I was born and raised a Texan and will be 'til the end

As I travel down that blue bonnet highway
I'm thankful I was born a lucky man
And I know that I will live and die my own way
Somewhere between the Red and Rio Grande

Two old boots, dusty, worn, and stained
By the oilfields and the ranches and the blood that fell like rain
Heroes hearts that fought to change our name
From Tejas to Texas where the Lone Star proudly waves

[SweethomeSanAntonio]

China Grove Doobie Brothers

CHina Grove is a San Antonio suburb.Cool old song.


YouTube - CHINA GROVE


the official


YouTube - China Grove

[NOTAM]

Pat Green - I Like Texas lyrics

Well from Dalhart to Del Rio
And out El Paso way
I've been doin' fine on Houston time
When the sun sets on the Copano Bay
From way up where the Red River flows
On down to the Rio Grand
I was born a little native Texan kid
And i'm proud to say that I am
Chorus
Yeah well I like Texas
Ain't it fine here
I like to pick my guitar down at ol Gruene Hall
And drink that Miller Lite beer
Yeah well 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
You can strap on boots and have yourself a laugh or two
Well there's no line dancing just straight romancing
That Hill Country love is what I fancy
The streams running clear and the skies they are so blue
Chorus
Yeah well I like Texas
Ain't it fine here
I like to pick my guitar down at ol Gruene Hall
And drink that Miller Lite beer
Yeah well I like Texas
Man there ain't no doubt
Just listen to me cause I know what i'm talkin about
Well it's a two day old burrito
One lukewarm beer to go
On the Sunday side of a roadtrip weekend
Lordy I was feeling so low
When somebody flipped on the jukebox
And I heard ol Bob Wills say



Pat Green - Songs About Texas lyrics

I sing songs about Texas,
I sing them often as if she were some old lover,
I used to know,
I 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 friends there's a song in every town.

So sing me one more song about old San Antone, it 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

Well it's nothing short of the gospel hymns,
I guess that's why folks keep writing 'em when I die,
I want to go there too,
Some day I hope to walk along heaven's street and I'll still be looking for my taco meat and I swear I hear a steel guitar rising in the air.

So sing me one more song about old San Antone, it seems like a dream now it was so long ago, and old Guy Clark he can be just like a coat from the cold, well I'm going home.

When the night is real real still,
I swear I could hear a whippoorwill,
She knows there's music in the dirt down there,
Hill country rain is a cleansing thing and all I have to see one, sitting in a shallow creek got nothing to do.

So sing me one more song about old San Antone, it 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

So sing me one more song about those dusty plains, them honky tonk angels, and their lonely beehive pain, wish I was stowed away on some fast moving train going home, yeah I'm going home.



Pat Green - West Texas Holiday lyrics

By Pat Green
?1995 Dead Horse Music (BMI)

September come to Texas just one time every year, so we get our guns and our
Pickup trucks, and a bunch of that Lone Star beer, well we head out for the
Open plains, where the birds they all flow like wine, we hunt them up then we
Shoot them down, man it makes me feel so fine, The manly sport is what I'm
Talking about, so you can grab you a pouch of chew, If we get bored 'cause the
Birds won't fly, we'll shoot the rabbits with my .22.

Chorus

I don't wanna go to Paris, I get enough French with my fries,
Just send me on down to Abilene, for the huntingman's paradise,
Honey you can stay at home all day, laugh and dance go out shopping and play,
'cause I'll be out with the boys, on a West Texas Holiday.

Hunting is a lot like religion or so it is I'm told, they're both just a simple
Little way of life, and they're both good for your soul, from Robert Earl Keen
To Robert E. Lee, perfect strangers or best of friends, we all have a common
Little bond between us we were born to be huntin' men, If it flies it dies or
So they say, and so often times it's true, yeah but you take yours and I'll
Take mine, and we'll have us a Bar-B-Que.

[bresilhac]

Stevie Ray Vaughan's Riviera Paradise. An instrumental, it's smooth, blusey and with a lot of soul. A classic to be sure.

[Synopsis]

Originally Posted by TexasReb

Ok, y'all. List your top ten (or five if you can't think of ten) songs of all time that relate to Texas or something related TO Texas. Or associated with its history. Or the overall experience..r

In no particular order...

1. Yellow Rose of Texas
2. Waltz across Texas
3. Texas, Our Texas
4. Dixie (the Texas boy's version which goes "shall this boasting, mad, invader, trample Texas and degrade her? By our father's proud example, Southern soil they shall not trample...To arms, to arms, in Texas.." Bet y'all didn't know that existed, didja? LOL)
5. Deep in the Heart Of Texas
6. Eyes of Texas
7. Bob Wills is Still the King
8. San Antonio Rose
9. Hillbilly Rock
10. Remember the Alamo

Y'alls turn...

Deep in the Heart of Texas is still great to this day.

[blueskies49]

Originally Posted by SweethomeSanAntonio

China Grove Doobie Brothers

CHina Grove is a San Antonio suburb.Cool old song.


YouTube - CHINA GROVE


the official


YouTube - China Grove

Oh, that's cool. I didn't know that about that song.

[case44]

Originally Posted by blueskies49

Oh, that's cool. I didn't know that about that song.

It's funny, blueskies. I didn't know what the Doobie Brothers were singing about until just a few short years ago.

Just had to listen to the words a little more carefully in the first verse.

They did say San Antone. I don't know why I didn't catch it sooner.

[blueskies49]

You know what, case, that's true. I always heard the San Antone part but never caught it sooner either. But you know what? Aren't the Doobie Brothers from California? I wonder what experience they had to make them sing about that neighborhood.

[Subblefoil]

Hold on TexasReb:

Best song is "You Ain't Been No Where Till You Been With Me" and "Your Left Foot Ain't Draggin So Good." Both by Ted Wilson and the Shartruse Show Boys."