Thread: Song: The Trans-Texas Corridor Blues !

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Rita has written a song for The Blackland Coalition and corridorwatch.org that ya'll might enjoy about the Trans-Texas Corridor entitled "The Trans-Texas Corridor Blues". It will probably come right through our front yard one day. Our album is finally finished and is for sale at www.johnnytex.com for download or hardcopy which ever way someone prefers. You can listen to clips of the 11 songs on the album there. Rita is up for songwriter of the year at the Groovy awards at the fine arts building at the Heart Of Texas Fairgrounds in Waco this coming Thursday night at 7:00 if any of you would like to come out and cheer her on. Cindy Walker, Willie Nelson, and Ronnie Huckaby will be honored. There is an outside chance that Willie will be there. Admission is $7.00 at the door if you are not a member but you will get to see the awards show and several bands will entertain. They are giving away a fender stratocaster autographed by Ray Hennig. It is a very nice. One of the bands will be Johnny Tex & the Texicans! Yall come or just pass on the information if you can.
Mike

THE TRANS-TEXAS CORRIDOR BLUES



Well, I woke up this mornin’

Feelin’ tired and used

I went to a meeting last night

And got some real bad news

I woke up with a bad case

Of the Trans-Texas Corridor Blues

Well, the greedy politicians

Want to build a big tollway

And in the name of progress

They want to take our land away

But, while they line their pockets

We’ll be the ones to pay



(Chorus) What’s the secret

Why won’t they let us see

The contract

With that Spanish company

To hell with NAFTA

I don’t wanna hafta

Feel worn out trucks from Mexico

Bearing down on me



Well, my Dad’s upset

He’s havin’ palpitations

That farm’s been in our family

For five generations

Hey, but what can he do

He’s got the Trans-Texas Corridor Blues



(Instrumental)



(Repeat Chorus and Last Verse)



(Tag)

Every time I wanna go to town

I’ll hafta drive twenty miles

Just to turn around

There’s somethin’ rotten in Austin

They ain’t tellin’ us the truth

That’s why I’ve got

The Trans-Texas Corridor Blues

Everybody here’s got

The Trans-Texas Corridor Blues



Rita Jones Music/ASCAP

308 Longhorn Pkwy.

Axtell, TX 76624

(254)863-5743

Copyrighted 2007

michael.jones17@att.net

The chickens are coming home to roost....thank your leader George the Emperor! Serves you right---now what are you gonna do?

Thanks for sharing W. I really liked the chorus.

What’s the secret

Why won’t they let us see

The contract

With that Spanish company

To hell with NAFTA

I don’t wanna hafta

Feel worn out trucks from Mexico

Bearing down on me

There's something rotten in Austin.

I think he means Rick!

These guys are great.

Dixie