#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# # Date: 11/10/98; 5:34:56 PM From: Joshua Joseph Dodds <jjd0009@unt.edu> Subject: Pat Green Tabs: Songs About Texas From: Joshua Joseph Dodds Song: Songs About Texas Written by: Walt Wilkins Performed by: Pat Green Album: George's Bar Notes: This Pat Green's most famous song, and rightly so. It is very easy, though. The Picking pattern is simply: picking the low base string, followed by picking the top several high strings. The 'hidden' song on "George's Bar", which is a cool acoustic version, is easier to learn from. In the chorus the names: "Guy Clark/Jerry Jeff Walker/Robert Earl Keen/Townes Van Zant" are used interchangably. These lyrics are taken directly from the book, so they are how the song was written not sung. The only semi-confusing part is at the end of the chorus, there are three things: 1)At the end of the thrid line while singing the word 'cold', Pat Green either uses an F#m, or a regular A. (Live, I saw him use an F#m. But it sounds ok to use an A instead) 2)The way the song is originally written, the chorus includes two extra lines. In the regular version I don't think they are used at all. Instead, the line "I'm going home" is used. In the acoustic version the 'extra' lines are used. It's up to you. I'll star(***) where the 'extra' lines begin. 3)There are two versions of the chorus with the same notes, apply the chords from the first chorus to the second chorus. A I sing songs about Texas D A Sing then often as if she was some old lover E I used to know A D A Wish I could follow them back to the homeland every time E A I hear one on my radio Twin fiddles playing in my memory My daddy sang the wonders of old cow town Silver hair and he's still there under a sky so warm and fair I tell you friends there's a song in every town. E D A chorus: Sing me one more song about old San Antone E D A Seems like a dream now it was so long ago (A) E D f#m E Guy Clark he can be just like a coat from the cold A D A ***Songs about Texas sing them often every time*** E A ***I think I've got no home*** chorus: Sing me one more song about old San Antone #2 them honky tonk angels and their lonely be hive pain wish I was stowed away on some fast moving train going home additional lyrics: Nothing short of the gospel hymns I guess that's why folks keep writing 'um and when I die I want to go there too Someday I hope to walk along heavens street I'll still be looking for my taco meat and I swear I hear a steel guitar just rising in the air When the night is real real still I swear I could hear a Whipperewill she knows there's music in the in the dirt down there Hill Country rain is a cleansing thing and I have to see one and I'll be sitting in a shallow creek with nothing to do