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Southeast Texas Son
03:52
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Thinking back to my younger days
To see me here you would be amazed
At the things that we did in my southeast Texas days
Drinking whiskey and chase it with wine
Just being crazy and feeling fine
Yea, we sure had it made in my southeast Texas days
Oh we sure had a lot of fun
Just playing out in the Texas sun
How do you know where you're going
If you don't know where you're coming from?
The finest women in all the world
You can keep your California girls
I done traded them all for one Southeast Texas babe
We take easy, we take it slow
We're in no hurry, got nowhere to go
Got all the time in the world down in southeast Texas, babe
Oh we sure have a lot of fun
Just playing out in the Texas sun
How do you know where you're going
If you don't know where you're coming from?
And I'm a southeast Texas son
(take me down the Neches!)
Thinking back to my younger days
To see me here you would be amazed
At the things that we did in a southeast Texas daze
Oh, we sure have a lot of fun
Just playing out in the hot Texas sun
How do you know where you're going
If you don't know where you're coming from?
And I'm a southeast Texas son
Yeah, that's where I'm coming from
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Color Me Blu
03:21
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Color Me Blu
© Ted Pearce
Listen real well, got a story to tell
‘bout a guy maybe some of you knew
I’d see him everywhere, every place he was there
When I finally asked him, “who are you?”
He said, “Color me blu”
I’ve been in, I’ve been out, I been up, been down
I’ve been to places where no one has been
I went to heaven before, I was lost, I was found
I been through hell and might go again
I’ve seen good and bad, I’ve been happy and sad
Did things no one thought I could do
Been all over the world, know all kinds of girls,
Been in love now a time or two so color me blu
And then he said, “it doesn’t matter what you have
And it's only vanity that you do so color me blu
I’ve been pauper and king, I’ve tried everything
Now I’m looking for something that’s new
I have made some mistakes and I have some regrets
And you know there were more than a few so color me blu
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Chaison Park
02:53
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There’s a place in Beaumont Texas where I really used to want to go
Back when I was just a little boy
Oh man, it was so long ago
It was a place called Chaison Park
I just wanted to go and play out in Chaison Park
Ya see, mama left us with the day care folks
Because she had to run away from home
Those people didn’t know her and they didn’t know us
None of us knew where she’d gone
While the other kids played...
Up in the attic we stayed across from Chaison Park
I don’t know why people gotta do all the crazy things that we do
Over and over and over again and always reaching for more
Kids having kids having babies again and all of us are going to cry
Still we are wondering why and where are we sleeping tonight?
I remembered that scared little boy today
When something hurt in a familiar way
And I realized he never left that place
He still wants to go out and play at Chaison Park
But you can never go back
I don’t want to go back to Chaison Park
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Give Me Your Heart
03:41
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Give me your heart baby and I’ll take care of you,
I would do anything, oh that a man can do
Give me your heart, baby, ‘cause I can’t take it from you
I would do anything if you would give me your heart, babe.
Give me your heart
“Cause I understand, honey, and no other man can do
All this and everything that a man can do
Give me your heart, baby, ‘cause I can’t take it from you
I would do anything if you would give me your heart, babe.
Give me your heart
Don’t you know that I"ll always be your fool?
There’s ain’t a damn thing I wouldn’t do
If you would give me your heart..
Just say that you love me now,
Oh we have eternity together, baby
And you’ll always be my whole world
Give me your heart, baby, ‘cause I can’t take it from you
I would do anything, I would do anything, I would do almost anything
If you would give me your heart, babe. Give me your heart.
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Some Kind of Secret
03:57
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Can you tell me why you won’t look in my eye when I talk to you?
Was it something I said? Was it something I did or maybe didn’t do?
Are you keeping some kind of secret?
Some kind of secret from me?
Tell me why you haven’t been returning my calls when I phone you up?
You know lately I get this feeling that there’s something you’ve been
trying to cover up
Are you keeping some kind of secret?
Some kind of secret from me?
Are you keeping some kind of secret?
Some kind of secret from me?
I never gave you a reason to be this way
I’ve always loved you and that would never change
There’s no reason to hide from me,
No reason baby
So I saw you on the street and I waved hello
But you wouldn’t look my way
You know I understand and I always listen to what you have to say
Are you keeping some kind of secret?
Some kind of secret from me?
Are you keeping some kind of secret?
Why you hiding from me?
Some kind of secret, tell me why
Why you hiding from me?
Tell me why, oh tell me why
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t-Roy & The Smoking Section Asheville, North Carolina
Out of the swampy woods of Southeast Texas comes another blues singer, then he goes to Asheville NC and makes new friends...
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