Monday, June 8, 2015

ATF: South Texas

This series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way your musical tastes could be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.



China Grove
The Doobie Brothers
When the sun comes up
On a sleepy little town
Down around San Antone
And the folks are risin'
For another day
‘Round about their homes
The people of the town are strange
And they're proud of where they came

Well you're talkin'
‘Bout China Grove
Talkin' 'bout China Grove
Whoa oh oh
Whoa oh
China Grove

Well the preacher and the teacher
Lord they're a caution
They are the talk of the town
When the gossip gets to flyin'
And they ain't lyin'
When the sun goes fallin' down
They say that the father's insane
And dear Mrs. Perkin's a game

Well you're talkin'
‘Bout China Grove
Talkin' 'bout China Grove
Whoa oh oh
Whoa oh
China Grove

But every day there's a new thing comin'
The ways of an oriental view
The sheriff and his buddies
With their samurai swords
You can even hear the music at night
And though it's a part of the Lone Star State
People don't seem to care
They just keep on lookin' to the east

Talkin' 'bout China Grove
Talkin' 'bout China Grove
Whoa oh oh
Whoa oh
China Grove

Link: [ZZ Top]


La Grange
ZZ Top
Rumour spreadin' a-'round
In that Texas town
‘Bout that shack outside La Grange
And you know what I'm talkin' about
Just let me know
If you wanna go
To that home out on the range
They gotta lotta nice girls

Have mercy

A ha ha ha ha a haw

A ha ha ha

Well I hear it's fine
If you got the time
And the ten to get yourself in
A hmm hmm
And I hear it's tight
Most every night
But now I might be mistaken
Hmm hmm hmm hmm

Lyrics From: [eLyrics.net]

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10 comments:

  1. I don't think I've ever known all the words to China Grove. Funny what words you'll substitute when you don't really know what they're singing. Not that I can remember what I thought they were really singing but just saying :)

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Ann!!! Yeah, I am fairly often rather shocked over discovering what they are really singing. On the other hand, since most of the lyrics I find and try to edit actually come through someone not so unlike ourselves, it may very well be that they are the ones who have substituted words.

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear TWG!!! How much longer are you-all going to get stormed on down there?

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  3. The Doobie Brothers is such a classic. You can't help but turn it up when you hear it.

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Lin!!! Indeed. I am sorry for taking so long to get your comment up. I have not received an email notice of the last several you have left, and I just now checked the main page to my Blogger dashboard, which lists all of the comments I have not already dealt with. Have you done something to upset Google/Blogger?

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  4. Dear Jerry, Great music. I like the Doobie Bros. but I Love ZZ Top!! Great picks. Catherine

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Catherine!!! I like a lot more of the Doobie's songs, but there are a few from ZZ Top I would not want to do without on a deserted desert island. By the way, it was the same situation with your comment as it was with Lin's.

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  5. Very hot and fun picks, thanks!

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Karen!!! Did they get some toes to tappin'?

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