the displaced texan

While it’s sad to not be living in Texas, it can be fun to be a Texan living in a far away land.  I tell everyone here in Tennessee just how great the Great State of Texas is. I talk about its many cultures, the food, the music, the people, the good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful.  Some call it arrogance, I call it pride.  Texas truly is a world in of its own, but before it became a frame of mind, it was a republic.

My son wore his Davey Crockett coon-skin hat to school and I walked around telling everyone happy Texas Independence day.  I had an insanely busy day, yesterday and wasn’t able to give this post justice so it’s a day late, so on the second day of the 173rd year of the Texas Republic, I thought I’d share a little about Texas.

• Texas delcared its independence from Mexico on March 2, 1836
• Many of the great heores that helped Texas fight for its independence do in fact come from Tennessee
• Some reasons for the fight for independence include:
  • Political rights to which the settlers had previously been accustomed, such as the right to keep and bear arms and the right to trial by jury, were denied.
  • No system of public education had been established.
  • The settlers were not allowed freedom of religion.
• Sam Houston is the only person in U.S. history to have been the governor of two different states, Tennessee and Texas, be a President and State senator

I could go on and on about Texas, I always do, so I’ll just leave you with the lyrics of one of my favorite songs, What I Like About Texas, from Gary P. Nunn and Jerry Jeff Walker.

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT TEXAS

You ask me what I like about Texas

I tell you it’s the wide open spaces!

It’s everything between the Sabine and the Rio Grande.

It’s the Llano Estacado,

It’s the Brazos and the Colorado;

Spirit of the people down here who share this land!

It’s another burrito, it’s a cold Lone Star in my hand

It’s a quarter for the jukebox, boys,

Play some songs by your favorite Austin Texas band!

You ask me what I like about Texas

It’s the big timber roundneck Nacadoches

It’s driving El Camino Real into San Antone

It’s the Riverwalk and Mi Tierra

Dancing to the Cotton-eyed Joe

It’s stories of the Menger Hotel and the Alamo!

(You remember the Alamo!)

It’s another burrito, it’s a cold Lone Star in my hand!

It’s a quarter for the jukebox, boys,

Play some songs by your favorite Austin Texas band!

Hey, you ask me what I like about Texas

It’s Blue Bonnet and Indian paint brushes

Swimming in the sacred waters of Barton Springs

It’s body surfing at Freo

It’s Saturday night in El Paso!

Driving across the border for some cultural exchange!

It’s another burrito, it’s a cold Lone Star in my hand!

It’s a quarter for the jukebox, boys,

Play some songs by your favorite Austin Texas band!

It’s another burrito, it’s a cold Lone Star in my hand!

It’s a quarter for the jukebox, boys,

Play some songs by your favorite Austin Texas band!

Yee-Hoo! That’s what I like about Texas! Yehaw!