Welcome to Blue Texas Morning

Texas morning shining with your skies so blue,
while white clouds go slowly drifting by,
Brings back the memory of the time I spent with you,
and starts the teardrops flowing from my eyes.

Blue Texas Morning, you're not here and I feel so all alone,
Blue Texas Morning, I just finally realized that you were gone.

The lyrics above are from a song, "Blue Texas Morning" that I wrote back in 1976,  while making a long extended RV trip from Illinois, down through Texas and then to the west coast. We were all tired and had driven hundreds of miles that day so we decided to pull off the road at a small roadside rest stop.  Not thinking much about where we had stopped for the night, only that it was just right for a large RV and a Chevy van carrying our band's equipment.

The night was very peaceful but morning came much to quickly, as we were all worn out and still groggy from all the many hours on the road. Before I went outside, I opened the curtain in our bedroom window and, much to my surprise, there was a plaque beside where we had stopped describing that this section of road was dedicated to Charles Goodnight, and it was part of the Goodnight -Loving Trail.

The morning was beautiful, the air was crisp and the blue sky, with billowy white clouds seemed to be as big as Texas itself. If ever a songwriter had found something to write about it was that big, blue Texas sky.