Songs About Texas Pat Green
Song: Songs About Texas
Performed by: Pat Green
Album: George's Bar
Written by: Walt Wilkins
From: Joshua Joseph Dodds
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.
I sing [A]songs about Texas
[D] Sing then often as [A]if she was some old lover
[E] I used to know
[A] Wish I could follow them [D]back to the homeland every t[A]ime
I hear one on my [E]radi[A]o
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.
chorus: [E]Sing me one more song a[D]bout old San An[A]tone
[E] Seems like a dream now it was [D]so long ag[A]o (A)
E D f#m E
Guy Clark he can be just like a coat from the cold
**[A]*Songs about Texas[D] sing them often every ti[A]me***
***[E]I think I've got no [A]home***
chorus: Sing me one more song about old San Antone
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
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