Down Texas Way

DESCRIPTION: "Down Texas way, there's a little cabin Texas way, Where they'll be so glad, yes, so glad to see me,,,, Let me play 'mong the clover and the new-mown hay And once again round dear old mammy's knee... I'm in heaven down old Texas way."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1916 (The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book)
KEYWORDS: home mother father | Texas
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Pegler-SoldiersSongsAndSlangoftheGreatWar, pp. 236-237, "Down Texas Way" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: (no author listed), "The Canadian Soldier's Song Book," Y.M.C.A. Canada, 1916 (available on wikisource.org), #31, p. 19, "Down Texas Way" (1 text)
NOTES [46 words]: According to Pegler-SoldiersSongsAndSlangoftheGreatWar, British soldiers often adapted this, singing instead "Down Wipers way" -- "Wipers" being the standard British soldier's pronunciation of the name "Ypres" (which Americans typically called "Yeeps" or perhaps "Yeepers"). - RBW
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