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You've definitely given some thought to this. I didn't look through your entire list, but there are some real winners on there. A few of my favorites:

Buddy Holly. Basically anything Buddy Holly. The original Lubbock music man; died way too early.

Leavin Texas by Jerry Jeff.

Lubbock, Texas in my Rear View Mirror. Yeah, I know, Mac Davis and corny, but after living New York and Louisiana for a while, that line "and when I die, you can bury me, in Lubbock, Texas, in my jeans" just got to me.

Ballad of the Alamo. It's on your list, and brings tears to my eyes.

Thanks. I made a bunch of lyric mistakes, but it was all from memory, so I'll excuse myself for that. And, of course, I was trying to think of others that weren't on the list - since I hadn't heard of many, many *on* the list.

Also handicapped because I don't have my large CD collection with me (all in storage) and realized my database of all the songlists is on another computer I can't access now. Plus, no sound on this puter I use now. :(

From time to time, I used to put together my own mixes of faves and always had an Oklahoma-Texas one ongoing - but again, it's not with me.

So, for doing it "free association" style, I was pretty happy that I could think of so many. I knew I was getting a bit heavy on the Texas list, so cut back on that. There are *way more* I thought of along the way, but couldn't quite place names or lyrics that others would know.

Just thinking in Bob Wills terms, I could've gone on and on. My genre is obviously 30s-40s-50s more than most - always has been and that has been a source of much teasing by my fellow Baby Boomers forever and a day. So, my musical muse is a geezerette - can't "hep" it.

"Tennessee Waltz" is the song that always makes me cry. And "Stars Fell on Alabama" is among my top 10 favorite songs of all time.