Memories of East Texas
Michelle Shocked
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Memories of East Texas and pine-green rolling hills
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Covered in the springtime with
golden daffodils
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Rowing on Sandy Lake come April
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Harvesting hay in June
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Sitting by the road watching well-fires burn
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By an old October moon
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I learned to drive on those East Texas red clay backroads
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And I mean to tell you my friend they weren't no easy roads
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You had to watch out for all the curves
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Down by Kelsey Creek
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And detour through the Lindsay's pasture
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When the water ran too deep
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Memories of East Texas and Gilmore County Seat of Upshur
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Looking back and asking myself
"What the hell'd ya let 'em break your
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spirit for?"
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You know their lives ran in circles so small
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They thought they'd seen it all
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And they could not make a place for a girl
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who'd seen the ocean
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But those memories of East Texas and those pine-green rolling hills
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Covered in the springtime with those
wild daffodils
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Sitting in those piney woods
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Playing my guitar
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Thinking back on the roads I'd come
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Thinking I had not come that far
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