Texas wildflowers in springtime touch the blogger's soul (or some other low spot). If you can't drive Texas highways in the Hill Country, watch the slideshow below that accompanies Gary P. Nunn's anthem, "What I Like About Texas." If this is (fair & balanced) iconography, so be it.
[x YouTube/SammyTexas Channel]
"What I Like About Texas" (1997)
By Gary P. Nunn and the Sons of the Bunkhouse Band
Slideshow by Jeremy/Jeremiah Oldham
You ask me what I like about Texas[x Wikipedia]
I tell you it's the wide open spaces!
It's everything between the Sabine and the Rio Grande.
It's the Llano Estacado,
It's the Brazos and the Colorado;
Spirit of the people down here who share this land!
It's another burrito, it's a cold Lone Star in my hand
It's a quarter for the jukebox, boys,
Play the Sons of the mothers of the Bunkhouse Band!
You ask me what I like about Texas
It's the big timber round Nacadoches
It's driving El Camino Real into San Antone
It's the Riverwalk and Mi Tierra
Jamm'n out with Bongo Joe
It's stories of the Menger Hotel and the Alamo!
(You remember the Alamo!)
It's another burrito, it's a cold Lone Star in my hand!
It's a quarter for the jukebox, boys,
Play the Sons of the mother love'n Bunkhouse Band!
It's another burrito, it's a cold Lone Star in my hand!
It's a quarter for the jukebox, boys,
Play the Sons of the mother love'n Bunkhouse Band!
Well, you ask me what I like about Texas
It's Bluebonnets and Indian Paint Brushes
Swimming in the sacred waters of Barton Springs
It's body surfing in the Frio
It's Saturday night in Del Rio!
It's crossing over the border for some cultural exchange!
It's another burrito, it's a cold Lone Star in my hand!
It's a quarter for the jukebox, boys,
Play the Sons of the mother love'n Bunkhouse Band!
Well, you ask me what I like about Texas
Well, I could tell you, but we'd be here all night long ♥
Gary P. Nunn is a Texas singer/songwriter. He was born in Brownfield, Texas, and was a member of Lubbock, Texas rock band The Sparkles during the 1960s. In 1995, Nunn was inducted into the West Texas Walk of Fame, and in 2004, into the Texas Hall of Fame.
In 1968 he was a pharmacy major at the University of Texas at Austin. By the 1970s, Nunn was backing Jerry Jeff Walker with the Lost Gonzo Band, which parted ways with Walker in 1977, with Nunn later moving on to a solo career. "Austin City Limits" on PBS has made the songwriter's "London Homesick Blues" its theme for more than two decades. The refrain "Home with the Armadillo" may have referred to the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin's heyday as a countercultural center in the 1970s.]
Copyright © 1997 Gary P. Nunn
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