Down in Texas Blues

DESCRIPTION: Don't be a stick-up man or call a man a liar in Texas because every "pocket has a pistol"; "they never hang a man." "They put us in jail every night and every morning they turn us loose." Texas is the best state after all: "I can get my ashes hauled"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1929 (StuffDreams1)
KEYWORDS: sex violence crime home bawdy nonballad
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RECORDINGS:
Jesse "Babyface" Thomas, "Down in Texas Blues" (on StuffDreams1)
NOTES [18 words]: Three line blues: the first line is repeated -- more or less -- and the last line completes the thought. - BS
Last updated in version 5.2
File: RcDITexB

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