Give Me Texas

Go ahead and ask me
what it is I want
it's not money or a fancy car
just give me Texas

It's the place with
the rolling hills
and the islands on the coast

It's that place
with the honkytonks
in every town
with the girls shake'n
their badonkadonks

Come on
just hand it over

I want that girl
in Amarillo
where she always
has me in a fun twirl

The Lone Star State
the greatest place
in the world

I don't want crap
that doesn't last forever
just give me Texas

Give me the bars
and the steel guitars
that fill my ears
with magnificent music

Nothing is the same
without a state like Texas
so just let me reside
and forever live like the tide
or out on the ole dirt roads

Let me have the Alamo
that is still standing
down in San Antonio

Don't give me money
or jewels or pearls
give me the honey
that lives in Texas

The plantations
with large cotton fields
and the large houses

How about those
ranches across the land
full of horses and cowhands

So just grant me
the Lone Star State
don't give me a teller of fate
just give me Texas...

Author's Note

Reviews are most welcome
Pic found on google.com

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

I loved Texas. I was station there for 5 years. I was single and I did roam down highway 35 and hit every honkytonk bar I could. The poem is true. Texas is still a wild place to live and be. Thank you for the outstanding poem.
Coyote

[Holly Mason]

give me the bars and the steel guitars-that just grabs me as did your whole piece
Glad to see you really love Texas...it is a good feeling to have and you have expressed it with fun and creativity
thank you for sharing

[KurKota]

Well, it is a big state ! lol Actually, living in the Dakota's (if we indeed were the 1 state that it originally was intended ) we would be giving you some competition for size ! lol ....minus the Gulf Islands of course.....but a hell of a river instead ! But since Texas has been my "second" home state over the years ... I have to agree !!!!!
Yall have a day !

[A. H. Pinley]

Things are big in Texas. God bless the Lone Star State. You wrote some great words for a great country song.

[J. F. Charleston]

Amen to that! Thanks, it feels that way

[Lost in Wonderland]

Gotta love Texas

[Lost in Wonderland]

nice ode to this great state:)

[J. F. Charleston]

You bet ya!