Texas Trilogy: Bosque County Romance-Lyle Lovett

[ti:Texas Trilogy: Bosque County Romance] [ar:Lyle Lovett] [al:Step Inside This House] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Texas Trilogy: Bosque County Romance - Lyle Lovett [00:00.67]Mary Martin was a schoolgirl [00:02.91] [00:03.42]Just seventeen or so [00:05.24] [00:07.11]When she married Billy Archer [00:08.92] [00:09.50]About fourteen years ago [00:11.19] [00:13.33]Not even out of high school [00:15.47]Folks said it wouldn't last [00:17.22] [00:19.31]But when you grow up in the country [00:21.10] [00:21.93]You grow up mighty fast [00:24.14] [00:25.49]They married in a hurry [00:26.93] [00:27.88]In March before school was out [00:29.88] [00:31.50]Folks said that she was pregnant [00:33.08] [00:33.66]You just wait and you'll find out [00:35.92] [00:37.57]It came about that winter [00:39.28] [00:39.92]One gray November morn [00:42.16] [00:43.97]The first of many more to come [00:46.15]A baby boy was born [00:48.08] [00:48.60]And cattle is their game [00:50.44] [00:52.31]And Archer is the name [00:54.03] [00:54.62]They give to the acres that they own [00:58.16] [00:59.63]If the Brazos don't run dry [01:02.15]And the newborn calves they don't die [01:04.50] [01:06.26]Another year from Mary will have flown [01:08.95] [01:11.25]Another year from Mary will have flown [01:14.30] [01:16.06]Now Billy kept what cattle [01:17.73] [01:18.42]His dad could afford [01:19.92] [01:21.72]He went bouncing across the cactus [01:24.47]In a 1950 Ford [01:26.82] [01:28.19]When the cows were sick and skinny [01:30.08] [01:30.61]And the w**d was all that grew [01:32.38] [01:34.45]But Billy kept the place alive [01:36.51] [01:37.09]The only thing he knew [01:38.88] [01:40.61]And Mary cooked the supper [01:42.31] [01:43.02]And Mary scrubbed the clothes [01:44.81] [01:46.67]And Mary busted horses [01:48.35] [01:48.93]And she blew the baby's nose [01:51.13] [01:52.82]And Mary and a shotgun [01:54.96]Kept the rattlesnakes away [01:56.82] [01:59.18]How she kept on smiling [02:01.20]No one could ever say [02:03.02] [02:03.52]And cattle is their game [02:05.47] [02:07.33]And Archer is the name [02:09.65]They give to the acres that they own [02:13.26] [02:14.83]If the Brazos don't run dry [02:16.53] [02:17.07]And the newborn calves they don't die [02:19.52] [02:21.22]Another year from Mary will have flown [02:23.99] [02:26.14]Another year from Mary will have flown [02:29.20] [02:30.75]Now the drought of '57 [02:32.05] [02:33.15]Was a curse upon the land [02:34.94] [02:36.96]No one in Bosque County [02:38.67] [02:39.22]Could give Bill a helping hand [02:41.56] [02:43.18]The ground was cracked and broken [02:45.14]And the truck was out of gas [02:47.16] [02:49.49]And cows can't feed on prickly pear [02:51.74]Instead of growing grass [02:53.96] [02:55.36]Well the weather got the water [02:57.07] [02:57.85]And a snake bite took a child [02:59.45] [03:01.52]And a fire in the old barn [03:03.79]Took the hay that Bill had piled [03:06.04] [03:07.91]The mortgage got the money [03:09.82]And the screw worm got the cows [03:11.79] [03:14.08]The years have come for Mary [03:15.60] [03:16.19]She's waiting for them now [03:17.79] [03:18.78]And cattle is their game [03:20.50] [03:22.34]And Archer is the name [03:24.25] [03:24.75]They give to the acres that they own [03:28.25] [03:29.72]If the Brazos don't run dry [03:31.94]And the newborn calves they don't die [03:34.53] [03:36.21]Another year from Mary will have flown [03:38.92] [03:41.20]Another year from Mary will have flown [03:44.51] [03:51.15]Six o'clock silence of a new day begin [03:54.49] [03:57.09]Is heard in the small Texas town [03:59.49] [04:03.00]Like a signal from nowhere the people lived their [04:07.27] [04:09.14]Then up and down moving around [04:11.43] [04:13.61]'Cause this began to fry and the biscuits to bake [04:18.16] [04:21.04]On the store left the salvation out or you won't take [04:24.59] [04:27.30]You open the windows and you turn on the fan [04:30.06] [04:32.02]'Cause it's harder then hill when the sun hits the ground