Fort Worth Blues

Steve Earle/Emmylou Harris
Fort Worth Blues
April 2011

Fort Worth all the neon's burning bright
pretty lights of red and blue
but they shut down all the honky tonks tonight
say a prayer or two, if they only knew
you always said 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 traveling to
Colorado's always clean and healing
in Tennessee the spring is green and cool
but it never really was your kind of town
so you went around with the Fort Worth blues

somewhere out 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've got to do
they say Texas weather's always changing
one thing change will bring is something new
Houston really ain't that bad of a town
so you hang around with the Fort Worth Blues

there's a full moon above Galway Bay tonight
silver light over green and blue
every place I travel to I find
some kind of sign that you've been through
Amsterdam was always good for grieving
London never fails to leave me blue
Paris never was my kind of town
so I walked around with the Fort Worth blues

--Steve Earle
(for Townes van Zandt)