texas

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Six o'clock silence of a new day beginning Is heard in a small Texas town Like a signal from nowhere the people who live there They're up and they're moving around 'Cause there's bacon to fry and there's biscuits to bake On the stove that the salvation army won't take You open the windows and you turn on the fan 'Cause it's hotter than hell when the sun hits the land Now Walter and fanny well they own the grocery That sells most all that you need They've...
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We crossed the wild pecos We forded the nueces We swum the guadalupe And we followed the brazos Red river runs rusty The wichita clear But down by the brazos I courted my dear Singing li, li, li, le, le, le Lend me your hand Li, li, li, le, le, le Lend me your hand Li, li, li, le, le, le Lend me your hand There's many a river That waters the land Now the fair angelina Runs glossy and gliding The crooked colorado Runs weaving and winding The slow san antonio Courses and plains But I never w...
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And you say you're not from Texas Man as if I couldn't tell Well you think you pull your boots on right And wear your hat so well So pardon me my laughter 'Cause I sure do understand Even Moses got excited When he saw the, the promised land That's right you're not from Texas That's right you're not from Texas That's right you're not from Texas But Texas wants you anyway That's right you're not from Texas That's right you're not from Texas Th...
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St. Mother Maria, watch over us please As we wander around in this dangerous world Thank Mother Maria, there's nothing so sweet As the undying love of a South Texas girl The three in the front seat, they sat on each side That green and white '58 [Incomprehensible] It would drive down farm roads past open fields Seeming like no big deal As it was happening I never felt a thing But now looking back it seems like it was everything Singing with mom just so we could hear ourselves sing Stea...
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Mary Martin was a schoolgirl just seventeen or so When she married Billy Archer about fourteen years ago Not even out of high school folks said, ‽It wouldn't last” But when you grow up in the country you grow up mighty fast They married in a hurry in March before school was out Folks said that she was pregnant "Just wait and you'll find out" It came about that winter one gray November morn The first of many more to come a baby boy was born And cattle is their game A...
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We do not have the lyrics for One Fiddle, Two Fiddle (Ray Price with Johnny Gimble & The Texas Swing Band) yet.
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We do not have the lyrics for San Antonio Rose (Ray Price with Johnny Gimble & The Texas Swing Band) yet.
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Why does it feel like night today? Something in the air's not right today Why am I so uptight today? Paranoia's all I got left I don't know what stressed me first Or how the pressure was fed But I know just what it feels like To have a vo...
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I don't know who to trust, no surprise Everyone feels so far away from me Heavy thoughts sift through dust and the lies Trying not to break But I'm so tired of this deceit Every time I try to make myself Get back up on my feet All I ever th...
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Graffiti decorations Under the sky of dust A constant wave of tension On top of broken trust The lessons that you taught me I learned were never true Now I find myself in question They point the finger at me again Guilty by association You point the...