“Looking out my windowI see my world has changedThe sun won’t rise this mornin’‘Cause my baby’s gone awayYesterday I could tell myselfThat she’d be back for sureBut that train don’t stop here anymoreAnymore, anymore” – Cesar Rosas / Leroy Preston © BMG Rights Management Street kid: “Hey Mister, ain’t you got a car?” Eddie Valiant: …
“The sun is sinking in the west The cattle go down to the stream The redwing settles in the nest It’s time for a cowboy to dream” – My Rifle, My Pony and Me (Tiomkin/Webster) © Warner Chappell Music, Inc In 1958, when lauded movie director Howard Hawks decided to begin work on his next …
“Come ride the little train That is rolling down the tracks to the junction. Forget about your cares It is time to relax at the junction” – Petticoat Junction Theme (Paul Henning/Curt Massey) “Every morning, the little old wood-burning train chugged into town. Every afternoon, it chugged out. Where did it go? We weren’t quite …
“Out in the West Texas town of El Paso I fell in love with a Mexican girl Nighttime would find me in Rosa’s Cantina Music would play and Feleena would whirl” – El Paso (Marty Robbins) Marty Robbins’ fifth studio album – Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs – was released in September 1959. Although Robbins …
“Look a-yonder comin’ Comin’ down that railroad track Hey, look a-yonder comin’ Comin’ down that railroad track It’s the Orange Blossom Special Bringin’ my baby back” – Orange Blossom Special (Ervin Thomas Rouse) © Sony/ATV Music In the 1920s, the state of Florida found itself in the midst of a huge land boom. A number …
“Till Bill Doolin met Bill Dalton He was workin’ cheap, just buyin’ time And then he laughed and said I’m goin’ And so he left that peaceful life behind” – Doolin-Dalton (Henley, Frey, Browne, Souther) © Red Cloud Music, Warner Chappell Music, Inc. William “Bill” Doolin was born in Johnson County, Arkansas, in 1858. He …
“I’m worried about you I’m worried about me The curves around midnight Aren’t easy to see Flashing red warnings Unseen in the rain This thing has turned into A runaway train” – Runaway Train (John Stewart) © BMG In the early morning hours of May 12, 1989, Southern Pacific freight train SP 7551 East was …
“His eyes are cold and restless And his wounds have almost healed And she’d give half of Texas Just to change the way he feels “’Cause she knows his love’s in Tulsa And she knows he’s gonna go But it ain’t no woman flesh and blood It’s that damned old rodeo” – Rodeo (Larry Bastian) …
“As I was walking one morning for pleasure I spied a cowpuncher riding along His hat was throwed back and his spurs were a-jingling And as he approached he was singing this song “Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies It’s your misfortune and none of my own Whoopie ti yi yo, git along …
“To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn’t have too much to say No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip (Big iron on his …