Story Behind The Song
A Stockyards historian took me for a walk one night, between sets. We went down a dark alley with cars parked everywhere, to a trashy place behind the buildings where he told me about the Indian Burial Grounds we were standing in.
Song Description
People come to the Historical Stockyards and follow the signs to the tourist traps, never getting to see the important parts: like, the Indian Burial Grounds down the alley
Song Length |
2:48 |
Genre |
Country - General, Country - Contemporary |
Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
Mood |
Distressed, Welcoming |
Subject |
General, Justice |
Similar Artists |
The Eagles, Lyle Lovett |
Language |
English |
Era |
1990 - 1999 |
| |
Lyrics
COWTOWN
James Michael Taylor
In a courtyard down the alley
There's a graveyard weeds and litter
Where memories undisturbed await their doom
Beneath the glitter of COWTOWN
Take a building old and crooked
Long ago the life forsook it
Paint it up and name it
Since nineteen five they claim it lived in
COWTOWN
CHORUS Where the memories are cheap
And they don't run too deep
And there's no sign on the trail that leads
To the grave yard trash and weeds in
COWTOWN
Take a picture of your daughter
Up on stage with Texas Water
Dyed feathers, leather halter
And the cowboy boots you bought her in
COWTOWN
CHORUS
Instrumental break
CHORUS
Well, it's not ?cause folks are fickle
They just can't make one damn nickel
Off of something they don't own
So they leave it alone in
COWTOWN
In a courtyard down the alley
There's a graveyard, weeds and litter
Where the memories undisturbed await their doom
Beneath the glitter of
COWTOWN
2000 Royal T Music - ASCAP