memories of east texas cover

just to recall a nice piece of Michelle Shocked. praising the beautiful landscape is surely not the worst thing a songwriter can do. - it was a great fun to ruin the visuals with vid filters. ;o)
I recommend to visit Michelle's own channel on here: http://www.youtube.com/user/mshocked


Memories of East Texas
And piney green rolling hills
Covered in the springtime
With golden daffodils
Rowing on Sandy Lake come April
Harvesting hay in June
Sitting by the road watching well-fires burn
By an old October moon

Ref.: I learned to drive on those East Texas red clay backroads
And I mean to tell you my friend they weren't no easy roads
You had to watch out for all the curves
Down by Kelsey Creek
And detour through the Lindsay's pasture
When the water ran too deep

Memories of East Texas
And Gilmer, county seat of Upshur
Looking back and asking myself
'What the hell'd you let them break your spirit for?'
You know, their lives ran in circles so small
Ah, they thought they'd seen it all
And they could not make a place for a girl who'd seen the ocean

Ah, but those memories of East Texas
Those piney green rolling hills
Covered in the springtime
With those wild daffodils
Sitting in those Piney Woods
Playing my guitar
Thinking back on the roads I'd come
Thinking I had not come that far...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• memories
• of
• east
• texas
• cover
• michelle
• shocked
• acoustic
• guitar
• unplugged

[hillbillypoet31]

If you would be kind enough to post the picking pattern for a proud Texas A&M Commerce grad you would forever be my hero.

[frozenwhitebear]

@hillbillypoet31 hey thanks for the comment!! it's a sort of Travis picking, I'll send you a demo vid. :)

[nllleonard]

Such a pleasure to listen to your creations, friend. Lovely take on this song. NAncy

[frozenwhitebear]

@nllleonard thanks so much Nancy! seems like I overlooked this comment! this was still a bit of my "rushing phase" and I hope I did overcome it... too fast! and it's still a tongue-twister for me... ;)

[RETRO714]

Very nice, but I'd slow it down a little.

[frozenwhitebear]

@RETRO714 sure you're right, I always battle my tendency to rush, lol! and it's a tongue-twister for me anyway! thanks for commenting! :)

[hillbillypoet31]

Thanks.....got the vid you sent.....gonna work on this one, myself in the near future.

[TheBeestoncowboy]

Hey man didn't realise we were competitors on this one....although completely different interpretations....I like this.....i'll now start watching your viewing figures

Best Regards My friend

Les

[frozenwhitebear]

thanks a lot!! I think your giving an interesting interpretation, though mostly the artists work rather intuitively and might not know all the meanings their words can refer to. I should forward it to Michelle... ;o)

[bartcooper23]

Sublime. Juxtaposes beautiful natural landscape & difficult emotional landscape. Chorus takes figurative leap: learning to drive = finding herself; not easy; curves of adolescence; & walking away best if got too deep. Song seems to say with perspective now, damn well not going to let the memories of a few pitiable people, character not yet fully formed, keep me from remembering the exceptional things. Achieves the paradox of being both intensely personal & universal. Nice job with it.