The Rivers of Texas
A few weeks ago I was
invited to play and teach concertina again in Texas at the
Palestine Old-Time Music and Dulcimer
Festival. I took the
opportunity to perform a song that I have always loved
called, The Rivers of
Texas.
Though I liked this
song, somehow I
never could bring myself to sing it in public before. I guess
that’s because I‘m not from Texas and have no personal reason to
sing the song. It sort of seemed out of character for me, being a
Yankee Northerner.
But there I was
actually in Texas, singing for Texans, and I figured that folks
would probably know the song and sing along. Well, that worked
pretty well. They did know the song and filled the hall with
harmony.
So now I ‘m home and
here it is, played by me with fiddler Paul Friedman.
The Rivers of Texas
