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Memorial Day a Conversation with Quanah Parker and Floyd Miller – Its Everything West Texas
I started writing songs to keep myself awake while driving my boys to and from Richardson, Texas for visitation. It’s kind of like my version of “Highway 20 Ride” by the Zac Brown Band (I tear up every time I hear that song). For two years, I went back and forth until my baby came to live with me, and writing my own songs helped keep me focused up and down the highway. I would talk and sing into a hand-held recorder, and it just progressed from there. A lot of songs came out of those trips — and on my trips driving back and forth to courthouses from El Paso to Tyler, Amarillo to Houston to San Antonio and pretty much every county in between on the super slabs of Texas. As they say, “You have to live the blues to sing the blues,” and I’ve done some living.
“Spring in Abilene is a beautiful thing
When you dance to the Blue Bonnet Waltz.
Autumns in Austin are totally awesome
If you dance to the Blue Bonnet Waltz
Houston in summer would sure be a bummer
Without the Blue Bonnet Waltz
You’ll be a winner in Winters this winter
If you dance to the Blue Bonnet Waltz
I hope that you do cause it only takes two
To dance to the Blue Bonnet Waltz.”
— Quanah Parker Music
