What's Left Of Texas?

(album: A Different Day - 2011)

There's a Walmart Supercenter in the field where I use to bale my daddy's hay
Where we used to ride our horses
Now sits a brand new cafe
The ole' house where my grand-dad was born
Was torn down in 1973
Their making off with everything that's left
So what's left of Texas for me

There taking God's name out of the schools
And Robert Earl Keen right off the radio
Their taking John Wayne out of Hollywood
Replaced him with some broke-back picture show
Ole' Waylon would sure be mad as hell if he knew they cuffed ole' Willie for smoking weed
Their making off with everything that's left
So what's left of Texas for me

There used to be this ole' honky tonk
Right down there beside that ole' town square
That's where I had my first dance
As I ran my fingers through her auburn hair
It was torn down to build a dealership
Of some foreign car nobody'd ever seen
Their making off with everything that's left
So what's left of Texas for me

There taking God's name out of the schools
And Robert Earl Keen right off the radio
Their taking John Wayne out of Hollywood
Replaced him with some broke-back picture show
Ole' Waylon would sure be mad as hell if he knew they cuffed ole' Willie for smoking weed
Their making off with everything that's left
So what's left of Texas for me

There taking God's name out of the schools
And Gary P. Nunn right off the radio
Their taking John Wayne out of Hollywood
Replaced him with some broke-back picture show
Ole' Waylon would sure be mad as hell if he knew they cuffed ole' Willie for smoking weed
Their making off with everything that's left
So what's left of Texas for me

Yeah, their making off with everything that's left
So what's left of Texas for me