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Old 10-29-2010, 09:28 PM
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My Gawd!!! I wuz bornd an' raized in Texas!!! An' I am mighty proud to tell ya,..I just had me a hissy-fit of laffin"...!!!!
Down south of Houston where I was born & raised we say it like this...

I was Texas born & Texas bred & when I die I'll be Texas dead.
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I tell my 16 yr old cousin, only two things come from Texas... He replies, which are you? "the steer, of course."
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I tell my 16 yr old cousin, only two things come from Texas... He replies, which are you? "the steer, of course."
Yes... that little ditty has always been impressive. The fact that the people who hold this view of Texas can actually rhyme words together has been a point of awe for decades now.
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Yes... that little ditty has always been impressive. The fact that the people who hold this view of Texas can actually rhyme words together has been a point of awe for decades now.
I hear the roots of it are somewhere in Alabama... they had a werd rhyming con test... called it a poem.
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I hear the roots of it are somewhere in Alabama... they had a werd rhyming con test... called it a poem.
Yeah... these rumors pass around from time to time about people from Alabama making rhymes.
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