From the recording Souvenir
Lyrics
We're More West Than Texas - Jennifer Epps and Judy Coder
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We’re more west than Texas, there’s no way to deny
Them cowboys might have started there, but westward they did fly
Out here where the sun sinks low, the west is wild and free
We’re more west than Texas, boys, so head out west and see
We love everything about Texas, from Lone Star beer to swing
We love the longhorn cattle, and blue bonnets in the spring
Those big wide open spaces and oy-yul rigs galore
But out here in the real west, we got something more
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The soil is rich in Washington our grapes and pears are sweet
The apple orchards where we’re from bear a fruit that can’t be beat
Now in Texas, when they grow a tree it just looks kinda sickly
You’ll only find hedge-apples there and all their pears are prickly!
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From Dallas down to Galveston mighty Texas has gone tame F
They’ll saddle up a longhorn for a photograph (now that’s lame)
The Alamo’s a tourist trap with plastic Bowie knives
What’s happened to that rough and ready Texas way of life?
Their cattle herds are all spread out you can see ‘em for miles around
They round ‘em up in a pickup truck with A/C and stereo sound
We straddle our saddle to gather a herd thru forest and mountainside
Roundin’ up strays in the wilderness wide is a matter of Northwest pride
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