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" Come On Down To Texas "(Texas tourism song needs ZZ-Top type music)

If you're lookin for a good time here we are,
look no further than the big lone star,
we say howdy to our neighbors come sit a spell,
we got that laid back kinda life that fits us well

(chorus)
Come on down come on down to Texas (4 beat guitar riff)
you're gonna have a good time here if you select us
we're like no place you've ever known, you can party til
the cows come home

(music leads fiddle, piano, steel)

We got lots to offer from end to end,
from our piney woods to our Rio Grande,
if it's waterways you're wantin we've got them too
from our gentle rollin streams to our Guadalupe

(chorus)
Come on down come on down to Texas (4 beat steel riff)
you're gonna have a good time here if you select us
we're like no place you've ever known, you can party til
the cows come home

If it's dancin and music that you need
head on down to Austin to Congress street,
you're sure to find somethin that fits your bill,
we've got our own opry and Willie-ville

(chorus)
Come on down come on down to Texas (4 beat fiddle riff)
you're gonna have a good time here if you select us
we're a country all our own, you can party til
the cows come home

© " Come On Down To Texas "12--24-2009 by /Gary D. Gray All Rights Reserved (BMI)

Gary,

What part of Texas would you be advertising with ZZ Top?

I went to San Antone on Western Swing and South of the Border Tunes.

Got to have some food, cowboys, Senoritas--Wide open spaces--and HOT, HOT PEPPERS.

Write on.

Mackie

thx Mackie what I need is a demo done with someone who can invoke the style of ZZ Top kinda like the riffs done in the song sharp dressed man song (although I'd been overwhelmed if ZZ Top did any bit of it)Texas is full of places that can offer you HOT SPICY FOOD especially in Austin

I am booking my flight as we speak. LOL!

Fun little romp Gary.

You use such elements like, names and areas very well and the picture is clear enough to see.

That, IMO, makes a lyric work (the pictures it can paint with words). Strong simple hook, well placed and used. "Come ON Down To Texas" (No hidden meaning there.)

Good Job!

Doug

thx Doug Texas is massive and can be just down home even in the big metropolitan cities you can still find rural settings

Hey, Gary--solid enough, here...Don't know why, but 'select us', in the chorus kinda rubs me the wrong way. Maybe feels a little "proper" sounding compared w/ the more colloquial tone to the rest of it...Maybe just me, & JMO, of course--Al

thx TT, it's gonna be a tourism type song so the words select us fits and rhymes

As always, JMO, of course--Especially caught my interest because I've been thinkin' of pitchin a tune to my local Chamber of Commerce in Cocoa Beach (World famous for "I Dream of Jeanie", Ron Jon's, & 7 time surf champ Kelly Slater--o, and "Murph The Surf"... I'll post it after a little dust off
Al

if this one gets the right demo it could be used as a Texas tourism song to attract lots of tourist into Texas (which is known worldwide )

Hope u didn't take my post wrong--I wasn't being snarky--I'm a Texan who used to live 10 minutes from the Alamo...I was just commenting on the IDEA...Out of the box--don't live in Nashville--ideas that can actually be an option for creating a market for a song--which gets u in the door to maybe something else--regional labels, etc.---Didn't mean to offend--& if I was too sensitive, mark it up to to that---Al

naw it didn't jossel me none my family has been in Texas since before it became a republic

It's not a bad write, but the "select us" thing doesn't work--too desperate. Instead of kind of begging me (the potential visitor) to visit, what say you just stick to pointing out the Texas pluses, and stick with the invitation slant. It's the SELECT US that makes this desperate, like--PLEASE PLEASE CHOOSE ME! Anyone who's been in sales a day oughtta know that would drive a bunch of potential customers away with a quickness.

For this to be the most effective write it can be, Gary, you're going to not just sell landmarks and hotels and everything else you mentioned--YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE IT SEXY! How? A sexy melody (Latin combined with Country...VERY sexy). Latin combined with country epitomizes Texas...now go forth and sell it!

No extra charge
JD

JD you are on ignore, sorry but that's how it is

Pity. I had good advice for your benefit. Your loss, I suppose. Maybe one day you'll get over yourself and understand what's liable to kill your song's chances of being accepted. You're acting like a spoiled brat, but I can forgive that. Been there.

JD

don't you get it? I can't see anything you write so please go away and stay away, Brian said to do this and I am

I will never again comment on your work unless specifically invited to do so. Nuff said.

JD

leave me alone I don't like you nor care what you say, leave me alone or I'll turn you in for trying to start something! I won't ever post or read any of your so called lyrics , do me the courtesy by doing the same

Hi Gary:

I like this song very much, but just like Twisted Texan am not sure about 'select us' although I see the reason for it. .

Just a thought Gary.

‘you're gonna have a good time here, check our prospectus’

prospectus is made of two words prospect and us

May be a daft idea…

Thanks for posting the lyrics. I did enjoy them

God Bless Roy

thx Roy the words "select us " was used intentionally to tie in the fact that people have a choice when they vacation and to try singing your prospectus would not only be confusing to the listener but hard for the singer, thanks for trying tho

I lived in Texas (San Antonio) for four years and that was my introduction to the great U.S. and music! Love the song and I think that the ZZ Top idea for a tourism song works very well, mostly because ZZ Top invokes images of Texas (including the stereotypical, but very fun, ones like the tumbling tumbleweeds).

Good job, Gary!