Usually veteran Houstonians are forced to deal with some newbie from Portland telling us all the things that are wrong with the Bayou City, so this one is a refreshing twist; Bare pines to get back to his old hometown and leave the Denver cold behind. Enter your email or sign up with a social account to get started, Houston's independent source of local news and culture. Really Red, "No Art in Houston" In 2014, you can still find plenty of dumb, young peckerwoods complaining that there's nothing to do in this town: no good shows, no good music, no good artists. On "No Art in Houston", lyrics by Perry Webb of Culturcide (now better known as artist Mark Flood) took well-deserved shots at institutions from the Houston Ballet to FM-KLOL, outlets purveying the kind of backward-looking "art that sells" that punk rock was designed to destroy. NATHAN SMITH. Not as true as it once was, but those are still some pretty mean streets up along Quitman and Irvington east of I-45. He sang what he knew firsthand, and that was the doings of the Bloody Fifth. Careers, His tune is more a memoir, with references to Hurricane Carla, Prince's Drive-In, the Astrodome, Magnolia Gardens, mosquito trucks and "sawdust spread out on a dance hall floor, jukebox rippin' at an all-out roar, barmaid smilin' at a ten cent tip." If your favorite song with girl in the title isn't listed, feel free to add it to the list so others can also vote it up. Ganksta NIP, "H Town" No song written about Houston has ever painted so hard and harrowing a portrait of the city as the South Park Psycho's "H Town." This track, along with the rest of the Ocean of Funk album, cemented E.S.G. All rights reserved. Swang and bang! True, we probably would have done so no matter what, but after she shouted out Frenchy's chicken and Willie D and channeled a little UGK ("I didn't do ya girl but your sister was all right"), it was a moot point. Steve Earle, "Home to Houston" Let's face it, Houston, we're a bunch of mercenaries. CHRIS GRAY. NATHAN SMITH. WILLIAM MICHAEL SMITH, Earle, "Telephone Road" Earle came to Houston as a teen runaway and fell in with some hard travelers. He nails it dead-center by closing with "You notice that the moon has been coated with chrome/ As it begins to rise beside the Astrodome." How do you think about the answers? Favorite Answer. Life in Houston is not always as smooth as this beat, with haters and heartbreak around every corner. This ranked list includes songs like "Fat Bottomed Girls" by Queen, and "Material Girl" by Madonna. By clicking 'X' or continuing to use the site, you agree to allow cookies to be placed. Far from the laid-back land of purple drank and slow-rollin' slabs that rap artists to come would champion, Ganksta NIP borrowed a sample from the G-rap classic "Eazy-Duz-It" to warn the planet that Houston was a bigger, meaner, blacker ghetto than a Republican's worst nightmare - with NIP himself as its psychotic king of the shadows. MARCO TORRES. 14 Answers. Support Us Yellow Rose of Texas. South Texas Girl lyrics - Lyle Lovett (Guy Clark) Saint Mother Maria watch over us please As we wonder around in this dangerous world Thank Mother Maria there's nothing so sweet As the undying love of a South Texas girl (Lyle Lovett) Three in the front seat they sat on each side That green-and-white 58 Fairlane it would glide NATHAN SMITH, Craig Kinsey, "Montrose Boulevard Blues" Set to a Dixieland arrangement as laid-back as an AvantGarden happy hour, "Montrose Boulevard Blues" immortalizes the Sideshow Tramps front man's beloved Neartown by name-dropping art cars, picnics at the Menil, and espressos at Agora (before the fire). Pop sings on this sexed-up post-punk blues with a snaky bass line and cushion of horns. But "My Block," a simple, easygoing tune built around a soulful Roberta Flack piano line, provided a nostalgic look back at the small-town community feel that call still be enjoyed in select neighborhoods around the city. Ledbetter added several verses to his version, most notably this verse: If you're ever in Houston, you better do right you better not gamble and you better not fight 'Cause the sheriff will grab you and the boys will bring you down Next thing you know, you're penitentiary bound, Some scholars attribute the Houston lyrics to a notorious 1923 jailbreak. Built around a sublimely funky sample of Yarbrough & Peoples' "Don't Stop the Music," this song from Pat's 1998 LP Ghetto Dreams casts the entirety of the city (but especially that Southside, y'all) as one big, rolling block party, crawling with flashy cars with our very own brand of rap music blasting out of their open trunks. Anonymous. Scarface, "My Block" Very few people have done as much as Mr. Scarface to make homegrown Houston hip-hop heads proud of their city. Bobby Bare, "I Can Almost See Houston From Here" One of the great homesick songs… CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS: California Privacy Policy | California Collection Notice | Do Not Sell My Info. Bonner paints the local scene as he sees it, full of hoods who would shoot you "just to hear their pistol bark." ♬ Texas Girl | 0 Posts. "Ya had to hustle, 'cause that's how we was raised on my block/ And ya stayed on ya hop until ya made you a knot." Country music is for white conservatives, and country artists are promoters of racism and inequality. All those petrodollars floating around. If the money is right, we will go almost anywhere and do almost anything. Terms, Get your answers by asking now. "It's a struggle here in Houston just to stay out of Ben Taub." WILLIAM MICHAEL SMITH, Bonner, "Struggle Down In Houston" Along with "Stay Off Lyons Avenue," "Struggle Down In Houston" is like reading a police blotter about the goings-on in the Fifth Ward. WILLIAM MICHAEL SMITH, Iggy Pop, "Houston Is Hot Tonight" Ahhh, the early '80s. Get the most out of your experience with a personalized all-access pass to everything local on events, music, restaurants, news and more. The Houston Press may earn a portion of sales from products & services purchased through links on our site from our affiliate partners. Newbury's version sounds like it was written for Jerry Lee Lewis, but crooner Don Gibson had a minor hit with it. When he sings "I'll be dead a-sleepin' in the back of Richard's Northside Lounge," that's all the geography we need. CHRIS GRAY, Tom Waits, "Fannin Street" A loser's lament, Waits memorializes the once dodgy street that, by the time he wrote and recorded this, had essentially vanished except for the seedy Metropole Hotel and its run-down dive bar. South Texas Girl lyrics - Lyle Lovett (Guy Clark) Saint Mother Maria watch over us please As we wonder around in this dangerous world Thank Mother Maria there's nothing so sweet As the undying love of a South Texas girl (Lyle Lovett) Three in the front seat they sat on each side That green-and-white 58 Fairlane it would glide Staff, MARCO TORRES, Dean Martin, "Houston" Sung by anyone else, "Houston" might be a sad song indeed, seeing how Dino has holes in his shoes, no friends, chases dollar bills in the wind, and hasn't eaten in a week. Considering women make up about half the world's population, it should come as no surprise so many songs would be written about them. Chamillionaire, Paul Wall, Mike Jones, Bun B, Lil Keke, Z-Ro, Trae, Rob G, Lil O, Big Pokey, Mike D, Yung Redd & Pimp C, "Welcome 2 Houston" "Ain't nobody better than the boss when I floss/ It's Slim Thugga motherfucker, Still breaking boys off!" Slim Thug feat. There's a girl and a warm bed with a feather waiting for him, see. Hopefully a car is too. What make of truck is the most "country boy," would you say: Ford, Chevy/GMC or Dodge/Ram? "I don't mind a bloodbath, with oil on my breath," the estimable Mr. Note: this article originally appeared on October 24, 2014. Join Yahoo Answers and get 100 points today. The gist of the tune is that they made good money but they wasted most of it in the joints along the infamous southwest Houston boulevard. Are you the "music guy" on your trivia team? In this song from 2004's Tambourine, all Houston stands for is a postcard stained with painful memories: "Just to remind me that it all went wrong/ Just to beat me up, just to turn me on." Answer Save. CHRIS GRAY, Mickey Newbury, "If You Ever Get To Houston (Look Me Down)" "Cincinnati is a long, long way from here/ And it gets a little further with each beer." WILLIAM MICHAEL SMITH, Lil Keke, "Southside" When a dance is created in honor of a certain track, you know that song is extraordinary. loveisonitsway. [Note: this article has been edited after publication to correct the title.] Even after that long list, we still have none more great verses to go, culminating with the late, great Pimp C. MARCO TORRES, Bruce Springsteen, "Seeds" Most songs about Yankees giving up on the Rust Belt and its brutal winters and migrating south have a positive feel, but this one takes the other tack.
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