BS: People leaving things in Texas

Subject: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: open mike
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 11:17 PM

Camp Casey is disbanded,
is the super dome (or whatever)
still full of people eating cake?
and dubya leaves his ranch occasionally
what have you left in Texas? your boots? spurs?
some rodeo riders leave an intact skeleton behind
but not many

Subject: RE: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 02:05 AM

Isn't there a song, "All my exes live in Texas?"

Subject: RE: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 05:04 AM

If there had been any justice they'd have left GWB in Texas.
G.

Subject: RE: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: Auggie
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 08:39 AM

All my exes is a George Strait song. Maybe he could get George W to do a little different kind of Texas Swing and we could swing the hell on out of Iraq.

You know, the rural, east central areas of Texas are actually full of some pretty nice people, even after you open your mouth and they figure out you're one of those damn yankees from the North. Pretty country as well.

West Texas? Well, as Jimmy Buffet once said, "That's a whole nother world." If I'd left anything there I don't believe I'd come back to get it. (with apologies to SRS in El Paso)

Subject: RE: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 08:46 AM

Me and my uncle went riding down
From Colorado West Texas bound ♫♫
Giok ☺

Subject: RE: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 10:55 AM

I knew some guys in the service who visited some girls in Juarez and as a result left their things in Texas. At the hospital at Ft. Hood, I think it was. And I myself left some money right there in Dallas, at a hotel.

Subject: RE: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 10:56 AM

Hearts(Tony Bennett notwithstanding), minds, good sense.....we've got quite a lost'n'found dept. But, the man's right: If it's left in West Texas it becomes sand grains a blows away....    Tw

Subject: RE: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 11:16 AM

SRS isn't in El Paso. That is hundreds of miles west of Fort Worth, where I currently reside. You need a map. (Warning--it is a very large map--this is Texas, after all!)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: GUEST,GI BLUES
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 11:23 AM

Hi folks from Fort Sam in Houston

Subject: RE: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: pdq
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 11:36 AM

Hi back at ya, GI BLUES. I enjoyed may stay at Fort Sam. Great people, both in the Army and in the town of San Antonio. (from E-5 medic, NG)

Subject: RE: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: Ron Davies
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 08:37 AM

Bob Wills (and Ernest Tubb also, I believe,) talk about huge fields of bluebonnets etc. That sort of thing would be worth going back for.

As well as lots of girls also sung about by them and others.

Or are George Strait's experiences more realistic?

Subject: RE: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: Charley Noble
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 10:56 AM

Down by the Brazos I left her alone...

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 11:02 AM

...cuz her daddy came ridin' out on an old roan,
With two forty-fours and a shotgun in reach
If it wasn't fer him...damn, she sure was a peach.

Subject: RE: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 11:16 AM

San Antonio is great enough to justify the rest of Texas.

Subject: RE: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: pdq
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 11:42 AM

I'm Goin' Down to Texas (And Be One More Horse's Ass)

How did I hurt that woman?
She never done me wrong
I run away and left her for
A redhead Amazon.
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!

Chorus:
I'm going down to Texas
And be one more horse's ass.
I used to be a stallion
But that's all in the past.
So they can't settle on my nose
And point me towars some grass
I'm going down to Texas
And be one more horse's ass!

I can't run in the hot sun
I won't run in the mud.
I'm over-aged for racin'
And I'm overweight for stud.
But I can drink and I can fight
A soul of whiskey glass.
I'm goin' down to Texas
And be one more horse's ass!

Chorus:
I'm going down to Texas
And be one more horse's ass.
I used to be a stallion
But that's all in the past.
So they can't settle on my nose
And point me towars some grass
I'm going down to Texas
And be one more horse's ass!

Shel--found on "The Great Conch Train Robbery"

Subject: RE: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 11:48 AM

OLD COWHAND FROM RIO GRANDE

I'm an old cowhand, from the Rio Grande
And I learned to ride, 'fore I learned to stand
I'm a ridin' fool who is up to date
I know every trail in the Lone Star State
'Cause I ride the range in a Ford V-8

Yippe-I-o ki ay.(twice)

I'm an old cowhand, from the Rio Grande
Where the west is wild, 'round the border land
Where the Buffalo roam ...around the zoo,
And the indians make you a rug or two...
And the old Bar-x is a Bar-BQ

yip..etc...

I'm an old cowhand, from the Rio Grande
And my legs ain't bowed, and my cheeks ain't tanned
I know all the songs that the cowboys know
'Bout the old corral where the dogies go
Cause I learned them all on the radio
Yippie...etc.."

Subject: RE: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 12:09 PM

"Across the alley from the Alamo
Lived a pinto pony and a Navaho.
They always had a little "Heigh-de-ho"
For the people passin' by"


now where did THAT come from? My head is full of odd bits. (I lived, briefly, in Texas before I started school...I was in the rail yard in Dalhart when FDR died....we ate in restaurants a lot, and I heard songs on the jukebox)

Subject: RE: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: pdq
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 12:30 PM

Bill D,

It's from a novelty song by Stan Kenton, done around the time of WWII. He later became one of the great jazz innovators of all time.

Subject: RE: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: pdq
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 01:55 PM

...this is at least close...and gloriously non-PC...


Across the alley from the Alamo
Lived a pinto pony and a Navajo
Who sang a sort of Indian hid-e-ho
To the people passing by.

The pinto spent his time a swishin' flies
And the navajo watched up at the lazy skies
And very rarely did they ever rest their eyes
On the people passing by

One day they ent a walkin'
A long the railroad track
They were swishin' not lookin'
Toot toot
They never came back.

Across the alley from the Alamo
When the summer sun decides to settle low
A fly sings an Indian hi-de-ho
To the people passing by.

Across the alley from the Alamo
Lived a pinto pony and a Navajo
Who used to bake frijoles in cornmeal dough
For the people passing by.

They thought that they would make some easy bucks
If they're washin' their frijoles in Duz and Lux
A pair of very conscientious clucks
To the people passing by.

They took this cheap vacation
Their shoes were polished bright
No they never heard the whistle
Toot toot,
They're clear out of sight.

Across the alley from the Alamo
When the starlight beams its tender glow
The beams go to sleep and there ain't no dough
For the people passing by.

Subject: RE: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 02:29 PM

wowee, pdq! That last half I never heard..*grin*....I don't think Stan Kenton was responsible. (Duz & Lux at least dates it!)

thanx!☺

Subject: RE: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 02:32 PM

♫"D-u-z, D-u-z, put Duz in your washing machine
D-u-z, D-u-z, D-u-z does EVERYTHING!"♫

Subject: RE: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: pdq
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 02:49 PM

Yep, it was Stan Kenton, released 6-47. Vocal by June Christy, writer Joe Greene.

Kenton was quite at home with novelty songs with "Her Tears Fell Like Wine" and another non-PC gem "Tampico".

Subject: RE: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 02:59 PM

The Ides of Texas
(words & music by Fred Ebb & Norman Martin)

1. You've heard how us folks down in Texas
Boast of our home in the West.
You've heard us a-sayin' in Texas
That things are the biggest and best.
Well, a few months ago in the papers
A fabulous story came out.
Which proves that us folks down in Texas
Know what we're talkin' about.

Here's to a guy with a big Texas smile
Who knows what it means to have real Texas style.
Here's to a feller who couldn't think small.
Here's to the biggest embezzler of all.

CHORUS:
Billy Sol Estes, we're proud o' ya son,
Hey Billy, Billy, hey Billy, Billy, Billy
You had to be Texan to do what ya done
Hey Billy, Billy, hey Billy, Billy Sol

2. While other kids saved up their nickels and dimes
For jelly beans, lic'rice and fudge
Well Billy saved too and when he had enough
He bought him a federal judge.
While still in his teens he was very perplexed
As to what field his fortune was hid.
His uncle suggested he go into steel,
And that's just what Billy boy did.

Chorus:
Billy Sol Estes, that boy really cooks
Hey Billy, Billy, hey Billy, Billy, Billy
He had one shining purpose and two sets of books
Hey Billy, Billy, hey Billy, Billy Sol

3. There once was a Senator Bill tried to bribe
So Bill had a wonderful notion
He sent him a yacht, but that wasn't enough
So Billy boy threw in an ocean

Chorus:
Billy Sol Estes, we're proud o' ya, mate
Hey Billy, Billy, hey Billy, Billy, Billy
It's hombres like you that make Texas so great
Hey Billy, Billy, hey Billy, Billy Sol

Chorus:
Billy Sol Estes, we're proud o' ya, boy
Hey Billy, Billy, hey Billy, Billy, Billy
Next to you Jimmy Hoffa is Lord Fauntleroy
Hey Billy, Billy, hey Billy, Billy Sol

4. Now they're gonna take Billy away to the clink
And the way things look now it appears
For all of the wheelin' and dealin' he's done
He'll get three thousand four hundred years

And the day they are leadin' old Billy away
Why each Texan will take off his hat
For who but a Texan in all this wide world
Could pull down a sentence like that

Repeat first chorus

Subject: RE: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 03:04 PM

hmmm...a couple of sites say "words & music by Joe Greene"

Subject: RE: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 03:09 PM

oh...I see! (Read s-l-o-w-l-y Bill) Joe wrote it, Stan Kenton performed it at times...as did The Mills Brothers and Bob Wills.

Subject: RE: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 03:22 PM

A couple of winters ago I went through Texas on the train. It was just getting dusk when we entered the state from the east and at first light we were still there, albeit in West Texas. It's a big 'un. Of course, Alaska is bigger by quite a bit (2 1/2 times) but in Alaska you have to take to the air to get very far.

Actually I was quite taken with west Texas- I read a lot of Zane Grey stories when I was a kid. I could just see the cattle and the cowhands. And the rattlesnakes. And the storms.

Subject: RE: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: Celtaddict
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 06:41 PM

Rapaire, an old friend in the late 60s had an album (yes, LP) with that song and a batch of others, mostly wild or funny or various combinations. (For Alice was fond of Algernon, and there's no wondering, for Algie was quite a handsome lad, etc.) What is the album? I would love to have a copy.
And it's not just the bluebells; the fields of wildflowers are spectacular in the spring, mostly in the hilly wooded east.

Subject: RE: BS: People leaving things in Texas
From: Charley Noble
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 07:24 PM

HOT TUBS OF TEARS
(By Austin Lounge Lizards, circa 1983, from their liner notes)

Those California girls are best, they say,
That West Coast lifestyle steals your heart away,
But surfer girl, our love wiped out,
And now I'm so blue,
I cry hot tubs of tears over you.

Chorus:

I cry hot tubs of tears over you,
I can't eat a bite of tofu;
I've given up tai chi and group therapy too,
I cry hot tubs of tears over you.

Our love was an expressway from the start,
And you took the fast lane to my heart,
But now my eyes, like LA skies,
Are smoggy and damp,
Why did you take the nearest exit ramp? (CHO)

You told me good-bye at the beach;
You fed me on white wine and quiche,
But now I know, dear, since we've been apart
Acupuncture won't cure a broken heart.

Final Chorus:

I cry hot tubs of tears over you,
I can't eat a bite of tofu;
I've given up tai chi and group therapy too,
I cry hot tubs of tears over you.
Big redwood hot tubs of tears over you.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble