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Songs
and Places
Steve Earle, Fort Worth Blues and the Roisin Dubh, Galway
words
Jess Codd, Joanna Serraris, Vic King
pictures Jess Codd, Vic King Compiled
by Mike Plumbley
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Fort
Worth Blues by Steve Earle
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In Fort Worth all the neons're
burning bright
Pretty lights of red and blue
But they'd shut down all the honky tonks tonight
And say a prayer or two if they only knew
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You used to say the highway
was your home
But we both know that that ain't true
It's just the only place a man can go
When he don't know where he's travelling to
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Colorado's always clean and
healing
And Tennessee in Spring is green and cool
It never really was your kind of town
But you went around with the Fort Worth blues
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Somewhere up beyond the great
divide
Where the sky is wide and the clouds are few
A man can see his way clear to the light
Just hold on tight that's all you got to do
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They say Texas weather's always
changing
And one thing change will bring is something new
And Houston really ain't that bad a town
So you hang around with the Fort Worth Blues
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It's a Full moon over Galway
Bay tonight
Silver light over green and blue
And every place I travel through I find
Some kind of sign that you've been through
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Well Amsterdam was always good
for grieving
And London never fails to leave me blue
And Paris never was my kind of town
So I walked around with the Fort Worth Blues
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Copywright
Steve Earle from his album El Corazon
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Worth Blues was written in February/March 1997 - Townes Van Zandt died
on 1st Jan, Steve came over the pond about 10 days later, did a European
tour - acoustic, and did not give himself or get the time to think about
Townes' death until he got to Galway, where he wrote that song and finished
his songs for El Corazon. He went into the studio in Nashville on April
15th. - Joanna Serraris, author of Steve Earle In Quotes |
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The
intent of this piece is to look at Steve Earle's song Fort Worth Blues
in relation to the place where it was written, Galway on the West coast
of Ireland. Also to draw attention to another unique watering hole in
the Western world where the poet, songwriter and subject of Fort Worth
Blues, the late Townes Van Zandt is highly regarded.
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'Townes Van Zandt Texan Singer Songwriter and Gentleman' |

Steve Earle at the Roisin Dubh, November 1998 |

Steve Earle at the Rosin Dubh, December 1998 |
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Steve Earle website:
http://www.steveearle.net
E-squared: http://www.e2records.com/n-home.html
Townes Van Zandt: http://www.townesvanzandt.com
also check out Joanna Serraris promotions
at Happy Days in the Hague at
http://www.musemix.demon.nl
Vic King's Galway
Diary 1999
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