Rodney Crowell
Rodney Crowell
Rodney Crowell
Rodney Crowell & John Paul White & Rosanne Cash
Rodney Crowell
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Rodney Crowell
Rodney Crowell
Rodney Crowell
Rodney Crowell
On what Crowell calls “a loose concept album” about his life, this lead track starts at the beginning. It’s a look back at the formative years and experiences of growing up in East Houston, and how they shaped the man he has become.
Crowell has sung many times before about his Houston roots, usuall...
[Verse 1]
So I grew up hungry
And I grew up hard
Took the streets and alleys
For my own backyard
I got a break and enter
On my list of crimes
Been before the judge
One too many times
[Chorus 1]
East Houston Blues
Scale of one to ten
About a nine and a half
Is where it's always been
It's in the drinking water
And in the bar ditch mud
East Houston Blues
Gets in a poor boy's blood
[Verse 2]
I learned to drink and drive
When I was twelve years old
My uncle Fireball Stoddard
Rest his ragged soul
He run a '54 Ford
Up and down the drag
Sipping Early Times
Straight from a paper bag
[Chorus 2]
East Houston Blues
Picture Dowling Street
And Navigation Boulevard
Where the crossroads meet
Three sheets in the wind
Brick shy of a load
East Houston Blues
Down a nowhere road
[Bridge]
Forty dollar boots
Big Bangora hat
Stolen money from an inside job
Maybe think about that
[Verse 3]
I'm a Third Ward child
My mother's only son
Which means exactly nothing
Without a loaded gun
I don't believe in love
This I guarantee
If there's a God above
He's got it in for me
[Chorus 3]
East Houston Blues
What you want me to say?
I need to find me a woman
Keep the wolves at bay
Keep my head on straight
Maybe toe the line
East Houston Blues
Ain't no friend of mine
[Outro]
So you understand
That of which I speak
I'm a worried man
On a losing streak
East Houston Blues was written by Rodney Crowell.
East Houston Blues was produced by Kim Buie & Jordan Lehning.
Rodney Crowell released East Houston Blues on Fri Mar 31 2017.