Memories Of East Texas Lyrics - Singles - Michelle Shocked

Memories of East Texas 

And those 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 

I learned to drive on those 

East Texas red clay back roads 

And I mean to tell you my friends 

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? 

Their lives ran in circles so small 

They thought they'd seen it all 

And they couldn't make a place for 

A girl who'd seen the ocean 

But those memories of East Texas 

Those piney green rolling hills 

Covered in the springtime 

With 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