Sterling Terrell

recovering economist

Texas Time Travelin, Cory Morrow

Texas Time Travelin, Cory Morrow

Listening to some music tonight and I came across Texas Time Travelin, an old classic song by Cory Morrow.

Reminds me of college.

Late night nights, long road trips, little responsibility, and live music when I could catch it.

I vividly remember watching both Cory Morrow and Pat Green before they made it big.

Think I’ll let a few more songs play before I call it a night.

Lyrics after the jump.

Texas Time Travelin

Well close your eyes and dream with me
I’m goin on a trip through history
I wanna see some sights today
Yeah we’ll go back when time was young
And you learned the trigger of a gun

Or you’d be six feet on your way
When the mountains closed the valley side
And rivers held the miners pride
It was the year of forty-nine
Well those days are now gone and dead
And I wish that I could see the lead
Flying from the cowboys iron

I wanna go time travelin’ through Texas you and me
I wanna go time travelin’ through Texas you and me
I wanna be there, breathe the air and see all I can see
In my Texas time travelin’ machine

The day goes on, the sun beats down
It bakes your skin to golden brown
Now your feelin like a king
We’ll pull off along side the road
And see the land ol Jesse owned
And all the times he spent with me

Then along the skyline of the trees
We’ll skinny dip within the stream
And we’ll flash the passing cars
Then we’ll jump into our Cadillac
The tracks of time will take us back
Back to the land off so far

I wanna go time travelin’ through Texas you and me
I wanna go time travelin’ through Texas you and me
I wanna be there, breathe the air and see all I can see
In my Texas time travelin’ machine

You’ve got to take a look around
And see this land before it drowns
Underneath the city streets
Geronimo he said it best
This is my land I will not rest
Until I’m dead or it’s been freed

I wanna go time travelin’ through Texas you and me
I wanna go time travelin’ through Texas you and me
I wanna be there, breathe the air and see all I can see
In my Texas time travelin’ machine

I wanna go time travelin’ through Texas you and me
I wanna go time travelin’ through Texas you and me
I wanna be there, breathe the air and see all I can see
In my Texas time travelin’ machine

Transporting Song

Transporting Song

I love that a transporting song can take you so quickly to another time and another place.

A short reel of a long and distant memory plays clear again, if only for a short time.

Other memories play louder and more frequently in our minds.

I have said this before and I will say it again: It’s peculiar what memories endure as time goes by.

We all smiled, and drank the Pouilly-Fuisse for the rest of the table and the red Bordeaux for the Duke, and all the while the men with the guitars kept playing, until finally I realized what they were playing, what they had been playing all along: ‘The Red River Valley” and the theme from The High and the Mighty. They did not quite get the beat right, but even now I can hear them, in another country and a long time later, even as I tell you this.

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Sterling Terrell