Clifton Hicks - Southern Texas (Texas Rangers) 432 hz

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I learned "Southern Texas" (Texas Rangers) from George Gibson of Knott County, Kentucky. My instrument is a c. 1910 Weymann five-string banjo tuned f# DGAD.

Way down in southern Texas
Where I rejoined to stay,
I left my kind old parents
When their hair was turning gray

I joined them dying cowboys
I knew I had to ride,
I climbed up in the saddle
And bid this world goodbye

I saw them Indians coming
I heard them give their yell,
My feelings at that moment
No human's tongue can tell

My horse she got excited
She could not stand still,
The firelight from our pistols
Like sunshine on the hill

My friends shot down beside me
Tears falling from my face,
O how I love you brother
But I can't take your place

And then I thought of mother
Who said in tears to me,
To you they are all strangers
At home you'd better be.

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