I really love the sound of this Texarkana blues song. I've been halfway in Arkansas several times in my travels north. I can agree that the place can be a bit confusing depending upon the State you are in. ;-)
I am a bit confused about why or how you lost your pants in the bar in the song, but always that up to trying to come up with a unique line. ;-)
Finally, when Dan wrote about Arkansas being 20 miles away rather than a half mile, it reminded me of the classic song by Lobo, Me and You and a Dog Named Boo. I cringed every time I heard them sing, "… wheat fields of St. Paul…" Because, to my knowledge, wheat only grows in western Minnesota or perhaps southern Minnesota. And, St. Paul is a river city, where outlying farms probably grow oats, rather than wheat.
Great song Joel. If I remember correctly, you can be standing somewhere halfway in Texarkana, have one leg on the Texas side and the other on the Arkansas side.
Great song Joel. If I remember correctly you can be standing in the town somewhere and have one leg in Texas and the other leg in Arkanas straddling the state line.
This gets me thinking of one line in the song "cotton fields back home" where it has one line that says "down in Louisiana 'bout a half a mile from Texarkana" and I would think to myself, the Louisiana line is more like 20 miles from Texarkana, not a half mile,so a lot of people
think Louisiana is right there also. I bet Jerry has thought of that also. Your song could be their town anthem.
Dan
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I am a bit confused about why or how you lost your pants in the bar in the song, but always that up to trying to come up with a unique line. ;-)
Finally, when Dan wrote about Arkansas being 20 miles away rather than a half mile, it reminded me of the classic song by Lobo, Me and You and a Dog Named Boo. I cringed every time I heard them sing, "… wheat fields of St. Paul…" Because, to my knowledge, wheat only grows in western Minnesota or perhaps southern Minnesota. And, St. Paul is a river city, where outlying farms probably grow oats, rather than wheat.
Ron
Great song Joel. If I remember correctly you can be standing in the town somewhere and have one leg in Texas and the other leg in Arkanas straddling the state line.
This gets me thinking of one line in the song "cotton fields back home" where it has one line that says "down in Louisiana 'bout a half a mile from Texarkana" and I would think to myself, the Louisiana line is more like 20 miles from Texarkana, not a half mile,so a lot of people
think Louisiana is right there also. I bet Jerry has thought of that also. Your song could be their town anthem.
Dan