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Texas Musicians.

Post by Robert_S » Wed Apr 13, 2011 11:19 am

Robert Earl Keen doing James McMurtry's Out Here in the Middle.



James McMurtry wrote:

They broke into your car last night,
took the stereo
Now you say you don't know why
you even live there anymore
The garage man didn't see a thing,
so you guess it was an inside job

You made a reservation, a table for three
They said you'd have to wait,
somebody must have bribed the maitre'd
Boss got mad and he blamed it all on you
Food was bad and the deal fell through

(chorus)
Well out here in the middle
you can park it on the street
Step up to the counter;
you nearly always get a seat
Nobody steals. Nobody cheats
Wish you were here my love
Wish you here my love

We got tractor pulls and Red Man chew
Corporate relo refugees that need love too
we ain't seen Elvis in a year or two
we got justification for wealth and greed~
Amber waves of grain and bathtub speed
We even got Starbucks
what else you need?

(chorus)
Out here in the middle
Where the center's on the right
And the ghost of William Jennings Bryan preaches every night
To save the lonely souls
in the dashboard lights
Wish you were here my love
Wish you were here my love

(chorus)
Out here in the middle
Where the buffalo roam
We're putting up towers for your cell phones
And we screen all applicants
With a fine tooth comb
Wish you were here my love
Wish you were here my love
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Re: Texas Musicians.

Post by Gallstones » Wed Apr 13, 2011 3:43 pm

I had something from yesterday that would be good here. I just have to remember where I saw it.
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Re: Texas Musicians.

Post by FBM » Wed Apr 13, 2011 4:09 pm

"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken

"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."

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Re: Texas Musicians.

Post by laklak » Wed Apr 13, 2011 4:20 pm

Really, really white boy blues:

Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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Re: Texas Musicians.

Post by Bella Fortuna » Wed Apr 13, 2011 4:28 pm

Give me western swing (Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys in this case) anyday... :shiver:


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Re: Texas Musicians.

Post by FBM » Wed Apr 13, 2011 4:40 pm

laklak wrote:Really, really white boy blues:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGEUFq7jYGI/youtube]
ISWYDT. :tup:

Kick-ass rendition, too. :share:
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Re: Texas Musicians.

Post by laklak » Wed Apr 13, 2011 4:45 pm

Lest anyone thing that everybody in Texas is a Fundy here's a "slightly anemic and well dressed country nigger..."



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Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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Post by FBM » Wed Apr 13, 2011 4:49 pm

laklak wrote:Lest anyone thing that everybody in Texas is a Fundy here's a "slightly anemic and well dressed country nigger..."

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0ZMj5RksbE/youtube]

all together now - They ain't makin Jews like Jesus anymore.........
:coffeespray: :funny: :clap: :clap:
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Re: Texas Musicians.

Post by Robert_S » Sun Apr 17, 2011 9:37 pm

What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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