Ft. Worth Blues

Steve Earle

In Ft. Worth all the neon's burnin' bright


Pretty lights red and blue


But they'd shut down all the honky tonks tonight


And say a prayer or two


If they only knew


You used to say the highway was your home


But we both know that ain't true


It's just the only place a man can go


When he don't know where he's travelin' to





But Colorado's always clean and healin'


And Tennessee in Spring is green and cool


It never really was your kind of town


But you went around with the Ft. Worth Blues





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 gotta do





And they say Texas weather's always changin'


And one thing change'll bring is somethin' new


And Houston really ain't that bad a town


So you hang around with the Ft. Worth Blues





There's a full moon over Galway Bay tonight


Silver light over green and blue


And every place I travel through, I find


Some kinda sign that you've been through





But Amsterdam was always good for grieving


And London never fails to leave me blue


Paris never was my kinda town


So I walked around with the Ft. Worth Blues