I have always really liked this song. It's a cool story and delightful music. Has that funny/sad combination. Resignation of the poor and downtrodden.

My dad asked me to record this song long before someone put it on line so I could learn it. I was so surprised: the story was so unlike what I was expecting. In fact the song doesn't make any sense to me even now.

Of course, this is an old song. My mom would always say, "Jimmy, play The Wild Wood Flower, like Dick Melton used to."

FANNIN COUNTY FAIR Fannin county fair. Red River rhymes and riddles And the Bois d' arc spread beneath the harvest moon There I found her, and I crowned her Queen of the Fannin County Fair I told her I'd be rich. I told her I'd be famous…

Barbara sings this... I wrote this song back about 1975. I'D BE GLAD TO LET YOU LOVE ME Key of G G C G C G I’d be glad to let you love me C if you’ll just hold me for a while D You could take your time and linger C G I will not…

From the Texas Water album TEXAS RAIN Peggy sings this one. OKLAHOMA NIGHTS - Capo @ 2 G F G Carefully, the boats are tied up to the shore C G F C D And the fish are jumping in the night, in the night B D G And the wind has found…

EASY ANSWERS Easy answers, foggin' up my mind Easy answers, takin' up my time You tell me what I feel What is right and what is real What do you know? You say, like all the rest What is worst is what is best What do you know? Easy answers…

Key - G Texas Water might be the only trio besides The Browns to do this song in the later part of the twentieth century. By Jacque Brel via the Browns. Here it is by There Browns: https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+the+browns+three…

COWTOWN In a court yard down the alley There's a grave yard, weeds and litter Memories, undisturbed, await their doom Beneath the glitter of COWTOWN You take a building, old and crooked Long ago the life forsook it Paint it up and name…

FORTY YEAR BARN words by Jacque Shelton and JMT (I wrote the chorus.) I had a dream as a little boy Not a policeman, a fireman or even a toy I picked cotton, I waitered My sox need darned But all that I dreamed was my Forty Year Barn…