On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 19:11:30 -0500, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 3/10/2021 5:46 PM, wrote:

What the hell are you talking about? What is "the song" ?

Cindy Hamilton



The Eyes Of Texas.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/mike-
freeman/2021/03/09/eyes-of-texas-lyrics-report-ignores-song-racist-
intent/4642339001/

The wording of the song is as follows.[6]

The Eyes of Texas are upon you,
All the livelong day.
The Eyes of Texas are upon you,
You cannot get away.
Do not think you can escape them
At night or early in the morn --
The Eyes of Texas are upon you
Til Gabriel blows his horn.

Sing it to the tune of I've been working on the railroad.


What is supposed to be the racist part?


Subject to interpretation.
Can't escape, can't get away. Sort of like your life if you were a slave.

... or just bound to Texas as a lot of Texans feel they are.
I see the same thing with people who grew up in DC/Maryland or New
York/New Jersey. They can't imagine being anywhere else.
A few rebels like me broke free but every woman I knew in Maryland,
still lives there.


Grew up in Philadelphia and never thought I'd leave. Until my job was
eliminated but had one in CT in 1981. Never thought I'd leave CT until
both my kids went to FL and my wife liked it and a one floor house would
be better for her.

Things change. I have family in 7 different states, including a
(non-native) granddaughter in Texas.

I was always a Florida guy trapped in Maryland by my job. I spent most
of my summers in St Pete in the 50s and early 60s. That was when St
Pete was a sleepy little town and there wasn't much of anything going
south towards Pinellas Point and the Skyway. You could pull off the
road and go fishing just about anywhere around there. My grandparents
moved there in the early 50s. My parents moved to Treasure Island in
the 60s and I moved to Ft Myers in the early 80s.