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HOUSTON

Well there’s nobody left in old Houston town
Everyone it seems is just leaving town
Worked hard all my life
Just to get what I need
It seems this ol’ Texas town
Has buried my dreams

Well nobody goes to the ol’ Montrose
Not a face that I see is one that I know
I spent my youth drunk here
Threw up on these streets
Westheimer Road is closing in now on me

Well there’s no one around the old downtown
Ol’ Market Square has just been tore down
They put up a parking lot
Called it Allright
I see my soul disappear on the Houston skyline

I sweat my ass off each summertime
March til November’s a mighty long time
The heatstroke can kill you
The roaches they fly, so high

Well BJ Thomas lives in Vegas now
Ol’ Lightning Hopkins been put in the ground
Roky Erickson lives in South Austin now
Houston’s musical heroes
Just can’t hang around

Well ZZ Top’s so boring now
They’re the only ones who should’ve left town
Clint Black’s records sound so homogenized
He sounded so much better
When he was just killing time

I freeze my ass off each wintertime
Tomball to Clear Lake’s a mighty long drive
It’s too cold for Yankees
And Texans can’t drive, on ice

Ol’ Dean Martin sang about Houston town
Everyone it seems was putting him down
Now they’ve all left
For places unknown
For 31 years I’ve called this my home
For 31 more years I’ll make this my home
Ol’ Houston town

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from Good Luck Stranger, released January 15, 2000

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