I found "Tulsa Time" on another midi collection site -
Bennie Shepherd's MIDI Page.
Tulsa Time was written by Danny Flower, and Don Williams' recording of it
was the 1978 Academy of Country Music
Single of the Year. This rendition was sequenced by Robert Dupler on 3/24/96.
The Tulsa Time lyrics are on an
Eric Clapton (!?!) lyrics site (it was also
recorded by Led Zeppelin!?), which includes an interesting
copyright notice.
(There used to be another rendition of The Yellow Rose of Texas as well as another version of the lyrics interesting folk music site called Contemplations from the Marianas Trench , or Lesley's Home Page. Lesley's lyrics use the phrase "Sweetest rose of color", alluding to the person who is reportedly the actual "Yellow Rose of Texas" - a mixed-race girl (yes, a teenager, as I understand it) whose name I can't remember but who was, by some accounts, the very person who was, um, keeping Generalissimo Santa Anna occupied in his tent the day that Sam Houston's Texican Army attacked and routed the Mexicans at San Jacinto (while yelling "Remember the Alamo"), effectively winning Texas's independence from Mexico.
And, of course, there is a very obvious Dallas song that I didn't think of until I happened upon it at Vikram's MIDI-Fest - the theme from "Dallas" (18k, 1:59).
And before we leave Texas, I'll note that the Songs of Texas site is trying to include Texas
college songs. It claims to have SMU's fight song, "Peruna", but that's not "Peruna", that's just "Coming 'Round the Mountain". (Close, but no cigar.)
The Aggie War Hymn is there, and even though I didn't go to A&M and this is
not a sophisticated rendition, somehow it gave me a strong nostaligic feeling.
I think I was influenced by my Judith's knowledge of (some of) the words.
You see, Texas A&M and the University of Texas have the only two school fight songs I know of that refer to each other;
something like this:
Texas: "Texas fight, Texas fight, and it's goodbye to A and M..."
A&M: "Well, its goodbye to Texas Uni-versity. So Long to the Orange and the Whi-i-ite..."
I certainly couldn't think of anything that related directly to Seaford, but several people suggested Billy Joel, who's from Levittown, just a few suburbs over in Nassau County. Here's Still Rock'n'Roll to Me (20k, 3:03), sequenced by D.W. Barnes, from Vikram's MIDI-Fest.
Oh, and then, of course, if I follow theme of associating pop/rock stars with their home towns, I should link to something from Bob Dylan. But I haven't found anything I like.
Unfortunately, Born in the USA - or at least this rendition - sounds awfully repititious in MIDI. But "Fire" (14k, 3:18), (which the Pointer Sisters recorded, but Springsteen wrote) sounds a lot better.
But I listened to Ohio's state song, "Beautiful Ohio" (26k, 2:02). I decided I liked it a lot, and it's even better when combined with the lyrics, which are reproduced from the Ohio Public Library Information Network.. (I originally found the state song midi file on Vikram's Midi-fest, but www.50states.com now seems to be a much better resource for all kinds of state information, including songs.)
To get something more familiar, I grabbed Marie Hardeman's rendition of
The Wabash Cannonball (11k, 1:31)
from the Songs of Texas page.
Now I'm not at all sure where the Wabash Cannonball train ran (though I suspect that it wasn't
Texas), and I admit that the town of Wabash is in Indiana, and the Wabash River forms much of the border between
Indiana and Illinois - quite a distance from Ohio - but the source of the Wabash River is in Ohio, and it
does flow into the Ohio River, and it's a classic song, so I kept it. Besides, someone posted
lyrics, too (which were in a slow-loading gif, so I copied them here).
The Wabash Cannonball
Traditional Railroad Song
From the great Atlantic Ocean, To the wide Pacific shore;
From the queen of flowing mountains To the southland by the shore,
She's might tall and handsome, And quite well known by all;
She's the mighty combination of the Wabash Cannonball.
Listen to the jingle, The rumble and the roar,
As she guides along the woodland, Through the hills and by the shore.
Hear the mighty rush of the engine, Hear that lonesome hobo call.
You're trav'ling through the jungles On the Wabash Cannonball.
Yellow Rose of Texas
Traditional Song
There's a Yellow Rose in Texas That I am gonna see. Nobody else could miss her, Not half as much as me. She cried so when I left her That it like to broke her heart, And if I ever find her We never more will part Chorus: She's the sweetest little rosebud That Texas ever knew. Her eyes are bright as diamonds; They sparkle like the dew. You may talk about your Clementine And sing of Rosa Lee. But the Yellow Rose of Texas is the only girl for me. Where the Rio Grand is flowing And the stars are shining bright, She walks beside the river In the silent summer night. I know that she remembers When we parted long ago I promised to return And not to leave her so. Chorus Oh I am going to find her, For my heart is full of woe. We'll sing the songs together We sang so long ago. We'll play the banjo gaily And sing the songs of yore. And the Yellow Rose of Texas Will be mine forevermore. Chorus.
Oklahoma!
Rogers and Hammerstein
OOOOOOOklahoma! Where the wind come sweepin' 'round the plain. Where the wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet When the wind comes right behind the rain. Oooo Oklahoma! Ev'ry night my honey lamb and I Sit alone and talk, and watch a hawk Makin' lazy circles in the sky. We know we belong to a land. And the land we belong to is grand. And when we say Yeow! Aipioeeay! We're only saying "You're doin' fine Oklahoma, Oklahoma, OK."