Beautiful Texas Song Lyrics and Chords by Hank Thompson
Beautiful Texas
Recorded by Hank Thompson
Written by Wilbert Lee O'Daniels
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We've all read of the beautiful stories
Of the countries far over the
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sea
From whence came our ancestors
To establish this land of the
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free
There are some folks who still like to travel
To
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see what they have over
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there
But when they go look it's
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not like the book
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they see there is
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none to com
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pare
To beautiful beautiful Texas
Where the beautiful bluebonnets
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grow
We're proud of our forefathers
Who fought at the Ala
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mo
You can live on the plains or the mountains
Or
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down where the sea breezes
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blow
But you're still in beautiful
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Texas
The
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most beautiful
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place that I
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know
You can travel on beautiful highways
By cities by village by
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farms
Or fly above on the skyways
To the beauty below you will
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charm
White cotton green pastures blue rivers
Golden
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wheat fields and fruit trees that
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bear
You may search till doomsday
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and then you will say
That
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Texas has
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beauty to
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spare
Repeat # 3,4 Oh beautiful...
FAQ
Who sang the the song Beautiful Texas?
- The song Beautiful Texas was sang by Hank Thompson.
Who is Hank Thompson?
- Henry William Thompson (September 3, 1925 - November 6, 2007) was an American country music singer-songwriter and musician whose career spanned seven decades.
Thompson's musical style, characterized as honky-tonk Western swing, was a mixture of fiddles, electric guitar, and steel guitar that featured his distinctive, smooth baritone vocals.
His backing band, The Brazos Valley Boys, was voted the top Country Western Band for 14 years in a row by Billboard. Thompson pursued a "light" version of the Western swing sound that Bob Wills and others played the primary difference between his music and that of Bob Wills was that Thompson, who used the swing beat and instrumentation to enhance his vocals, discouraged the intense instrumental soloing from his musicians that Wills encouraged however, the "Hank Thompson sound" exceeded Bob Wills in top-40 country hits.
Although not as prominent on the top country charts in later decades, Thompson remained a recording artist and concert draw well into his 80s.
The 2013 game Grand Theft Auto V featured his song "It Don't Hurt Anymore" in the fictional radio show, Rebel Radio.
The 1987 novel Crazy Heart by Thomas Cobb was inspired by Thompson's life, specifically by his practice of picking up a local band to back him when he toured. In 2009, Cobb's novel was turned into a successful film directed by Scott Cooper and starring Jeff Bridges in an Academy Award-winning performance.
