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This song was written in Galway because I did a solo tour last winter. I left about a week and a half after Townes died […] I went to all these countries I had never been before, and almost every place I played Townes had been through, it seems, on this run that he had done just the November before....
In Ft. Worth, all the neon's burnin' bright
Pretty lights all red and blue
But they'd shut down all the honkytonks 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 is always changing
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 kind of sign that you've been through
But Amsterdam was always good for grieving
And London never fails to leave me blue
And Paris never was my kind of town
So I walked around with the Ft. Worth Blues
Ft. Worth Blues was written by Steve Earle.
Ft. Worth Blues was produced by The Twangtrust.
Steve Earle released Ft. Worth Blues on Tue Oct 07 1997.