OUR POLL SUCKS: WE FORGOT ABOUT TEXAS.

What about the “Laverne and Shirley” theme song?

All My Exes Live in Texas?

“All My Exes Live in Texas?”

Mine too, +1.

Now that VY is gone Texas has returned to it’s normal form.

Pre-Season: Ranked top 10 baby! We rule all
September: Close calls vs. Arkie State and the like! “They were close but we’re still undefeated baby! Top 10 and deserved.”
October: “Eff the Sooner and Stoops. They’re cheaters. We can still win the south”
November: “After taking on the lower end of the Big XII north… back in the top 10 baby!!!”
Late-November: “We lost to the Aggies/some lower team but we’re clearly better and should still be in the top 10. BCS or bust!”

Suck it Peter.

; )

But really… Texas does always manage to get in there one way or another. Can’t say it’s not deserved despite the aggie of me.

Luckenbach = Braddock?

Maybe leaving Texas out isn’t that big of a deal. They lost a lot of receivers and the Big 12’s leading rusher. Colt McCoy threw 18 INTs to 22 TDs last year and they fielded the single worst passing defense in school history. The Big 12 is looking really tough this year too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45DFVyriVI0

From Austin’s The Gourds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCAM3C3dpIA

And in a strange twist, it should be noted that Lyle Lovett is a Texas Aggie, and would likely be quite ok with the bovines from Austin out of the Top 25.

Screw You, We’re From Texas by Ray Wylie Hubbard:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPbogQZV9Vc

http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/s/screwyouwerefromtexas.shtml

Also have to give a shout out to one of the few mainstream country songs I love – “Amarillo By Mornin’” by George Strait

proof that although i live in texas, i am not a texan – and coincidentally a direct response to lyle’s song – lyle lovett f’ing blows really, really hard.

Oh…and Amarillo Highway by Robert Earl Keen (written by Terry Allen):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Rw-VIlPy0yI

“Screw You, We’re from Texas” —Ray Wylie Hubbard
“What I Like About Texas” – Gary P Nunn
“Texas in 1880” – Foster & Lloyd
“Southbound 35” – Pat Green
“I’ve been everywhere (in texas)” – Brian Burns
“100% Texan” – Kevin Fowler
“Songs About Texas” – Pat Green
“Miles of Texas” – Roger Creager
“Texas Time Travelin’” – Cory Morrow

dammit I’m so overwhelmed with pride for my republic its ridiculous.

I’m contemplating blasting Too Far Too Care from my cube in a show of solidarity

If it’s allowed in this survey to add a song focusing mostly on (the outskirts of) just one town in Texas, ZZ Top’s classic “La Grange” must absolutely be on the list. It’s amazing how peoples eyes light up in recognition when I simply go “how-how-how-how”…

China Grove, anyone?

Heh heh, “doobie.”

#14, Jerkwheat: +1 to you, sir.

Kinky Friedman.

“Asshole from El Paso.”

$50 says that when texass losses to OU this year, “edsbs forgot about us” will be mack’s texcuse

and everyone knows that if it wasn’t for Oklahoma cowboys and mexican whores, there wouldn’t even be a texass

seriously though, they may end up with 5 losses – OU bias aside, i think this is a rebuilding year for texass, and with the big 12 looking much tougher this year, i expect them to lose 4 games legitimately and the completely give up during a game for a 5th loss, b/c that’s just how texass rolls, durty

Can’t believe “God Bless Texas” by Little…uh, Texas, didn’t make anyone’s list.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBPWwSL4Rmk

Have to post one more…a medley of Texas songs, sung by an Arkansan and a Mississippian…Johnny Cash and Charley Pride:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2-STKVns78

Whither Tanya Tucker’s “Texas (When I die)”?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li6dFyW231o

When I die I may not go to heaven
I don’t know if they let cowboys in
If they don’t just let me go to Texas, Boy!
Texas is as close as I’ve been.

New York couldn’t hold my attention
Detroit City couldn’t sing my song
If tomorrow finds me busted flat in Dallas
I won’t care, ‘cause at least I’ll know I’m home.

When I die I may not go to heaven
I don’t know if they let cowboys in
If they don’t just let me go to Texas, Boy!
Texas is as close as I’ve been.

I’d ride through all of Hell and half of Texas
Just to hear Willie Nelson sing a country song
Beer just ain’t as cold in old Milwaukee
My body’s here, but my soul’s in San Antone.

When I die I may not go to heaven
I don’t know if they let cowboys in
If they don’t just let me go to Texas, Boy!
Texas is as close as I’ve been.

When I die I may not go to heaven
I don’t know if they let cowboys in
If they don’t just let me go to Texas, Boy!
Texas is as close as I’ve been.

10

The Great State of Arkansas claims “Snake Farm”. It fits.

Sadly, Oglahomy gets the rights to Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother, one of the two greatest C&W songs evere written.

“The Front Porch Song” written by Robert Earl Keen and Lyle Lovett.

“Texas in My Soul” performed by Willie Nelson

“That’s What I Like” written and performed by Dale Watson

Get with it people.

And… +1 cocktails to #14. +2 cocktails to Orson for Revolting Cocks. What? No Lee Hazelwood covering Dean Martin’s “Houston?”

Lastly, +5 cocktails for okiedomer for reminding me how no matter what Oklahoma blows and -1 cocktails to any and all references to Pat Green.

Ahem…“El Paso”, Marty Robbins. A little corny? Perhaps. But it includes a lovelorn hero, alcohol-induced decision-making, a lovely but wicked Mexican girl, two gunfights and a death. That’s at least 85% of the C&W checklist.

Ahem…“El Paso”, Marty Robbins. A little corny? Perhaps. But it includes a lovelorn hero, alcohol-induced decision-making, a lovely but wicked Mexican girl, two gunfights and a death. That’s at least 85% of the C&W checklist.

Good work on the Lyle Lovett though.

All these songs……..and they all suck so far.

“Texas in my Rearview Mirror”
Mac Davis

“no one writes good songs about Milwaukee” Got to disagree. What’s Made Milwaukee Famous Has Made a Fool Out of Me by Jerry Lee Lewis is both a good song and so so true.

“…but no one writes good songs about Milwaukee.” I beg to differ:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHFR-du0YHQ&feature=related

My God….

I forget how unbelievable beyond mcfadden baddass pantera was.

Shel Silverstein, the same guy who did those children’s books, and wrote “Freakin’ at the Freaker’s Ball”, “A Boy Named Sue” and wrote a ton of sons for Bobby Bare, as well as "Going Down to Texas (and be one more horse’s ass):

Why did I hurt that woman she never done me wrong
I ran away and left her for a redhead and a song
I got no brains I got no sense I never had no class
So I’m goin’ back to Texas and be one more horse’s ass

Yeah I’m goin’ back to Texas and be one more horse’s ass
I used to be her stallion but that’s all in the past
So place the tail on my nose and point me towards the grass
Cause I’m goin’ back to Texas and be one more horse’s ass

I can’t run in the hot sun and I won’t run in the mud
I’m overaged for racin’ and I’m overweight for stud
But I can dance and I can fight and throw a whiskey glass
I’m goin’ back to Texas and be one more horse’s ass

Yeah I’m goin’ back to Texas and be one more horse’s ass…
Yeah I’m goin’ back to Texas and be one more horse’s ass…
I’m goin’ back to Texas and be one more horse’s ass

somewhere in austin, there is a longhorn fan clad in burnt orange staring in stark rage at his computer screen.

“you can forget texas,” he screams as he shakes his fist. “but TEXAS WILL NOT FORGET YOU, sir!”

Another vote for Ray Wylie’s “Screw You, We’re From Texas”

And thanks to everyone for giving me more ideas for my “Ode to Texas” mix tape. Or mix MPs. Whatever.

Now, let’s talk about great songs about Georgia!

I’m disappointed in edsbs that I don’t see any respect for “Texas Flood” by Stevie Ray Vaughan.

#23: Don’t forget “Hot and Nasty” by Black Oak Arkansas, or “When Electricity Came to Arkansas.”