What a blast from the past! This was unofficially our anthem of US drilling crews working on oil & gas rigs in the North Sea in the 80's. We usually drove the British crews crazy by us singing it pretty much non stop the last few days till crew change! And we could start a roughneck ruckus in the pubs singing it !
I just saw Gary P. Nunn last Saturday night in Hamilton, Texas(pop2800). Small venue but big music. Open air on the town square. He's now age 77 and kicking it harder than ever!
Yes, sir - Agreed. Just saw Gary P perform at Gruene hall this past weekend and he gave many nods to his old buddy Jackie Jack. It was a soul cleansing show.
Texas expat here. I do not miss the endless sprawl of Houston and Dallas Ft. Worth, but I often go back to the Hill Country and the endless South Texas Beaches. When I miss Texas, I sing this song and Patsy Cline.
Gary P. Nunn and of course, JJ Walker,' Time has neither diminished nor tarnished this song. Pure Freaking Genius. Both of ya. Thank you for posting this song.
My lullaby... No joke, my dad would sing this all the time. Miss that man, but my baby girl is in London and she shared this song with her group. Proud moment.
I gotta move to L.A. so you know I'm going to miss Texas. Then, God willing, we are retiring in London. I already miss Texas. I will always visit Texas as long as I can walk to get on a plane.
I love Texas, born in upstate new York but spent a lot of time in west Texas in the military , I want to go home with the armadillo, friendliest people and the prettiest woman I've ever seen.....
Your great and i love your song but gee i really miss Mr JJW. Saw you guys in Melbourne roughly about 40 years ago., Really sad that Australia missed that concert in Melbourne . Only about 200 people there. Fuck me you guys were the most electric band i ever ever had the privilege to see. We may have been present BUT you guys were in your own world just played for your selves.. So into your zones . What a privalige it was to the 200 or so people present. In love wth JJW before we left the concert. Would have left my husband that night for him. Miss him and you guys so much.
Jerry Jeff Walker's music takes me back to Texas when my sister lived there. The dive bars were something to remember. I never did get the hang of the two-step, though.
I wish Texans weren't such egomaniacs. ;) Bill, I've been all over the country and seen a whole mess of the world. Texas is great. But it's not as if the rest of the country is crap and we don't love the US. I'm tired of this attitude. Texas, it's just another state. The other 49 are pretty cool too.
Thank you for lifting my spirits, both Mr. Nunn and Mr. Walker. Wife in hospital, not well. You made me feel better, but that's the power of music, n'est pas?
Oh, such memories! The most fun we ever had in our lives was living in the Hill Country in the 1970s. Armadillo World Headquarters, Luckenbach, Floores' Country Store in Helotes....and the lovely, gorgeous Guadalupe River. This makes me homesick, too, and for a place that isn't there anymore.
Have too many people lost the ability to have real fun and love of what their doing like musicians and music lovers getting off on the pleasure and fun of enjoying and doing what they love? Can’t hear this song without smiling , cheering, and wanting to join in ,
I now play only in a jam band; yet a group with an agenda and set lists. I stumbled upon this masterpiece maybe a year ago. Is there really a better sing-along tune to close out a night than Gary P.’s? And this live version is a national treasure. So glad JJW invited Gary P. to do it.
OMG... and so many times at the Armadillo in Austin and Luckenback too! And dance halls in Gruene and elsewhere in Central Texas in the early 70s! Them were the days...
We just got to Austin last night and this came up on my feed. lol. A few months ago when in Austin I ran into Jerry Jeff's son. Jerry Jeff had passed and both of us had some memories to share..... Thanks for the post.
Pure Gonzo! Love ya Jerry Jeff and Gary P. We Texans really are unique. That's why people hate us. You don't like what you don't understand or you fear. God Bless from Baytown Texas
This is so true. I feel the same way. I was born here, am living & God willin' I'll die here. Did some travelin over the years,but there is no place on earth like ",Texas".
Saw JJ and the Lost Gonzo Band in a little bar in N. Hollywood. Not sure of the date, late '70's, early "80's. After closing time with power off, they went acoustic 'til the cops came. Invited remaining fans to their hotel bar. 'Bout 20 of us went and they played adlib for another couple hours. Blew me away. I lived in Hawaii, and there's the best of performances there, but nothing before or since, could compare to that night in Hollywood (that's where the hotel was)!
The greatest Texas cosmic cowboy song ever!!!!!!!! Gary P Nunn, Jerry Jeff , Lost gonzos, thats like Waylon, Willie , Asleep at the Wheel , Bob Wills and Ernest Tubb!!! now thats Texas style country..when country was ugly, not all GQ..lol
I wanna go home with the armadillo to. I remember my dad used to play this song when i was little and now god rest his soul i play it today. i love you dad.
All I know we used to listen to Jerry up here in MN in the 70's. He gives us good memories. TX I am still pissed that you have our North Stars. Love the cowboys!
I interviewed JJW. in the early 70s when I was a DJ on the Northeastern University radio station. What a great guy and wrote. some fun music. Never realized he was from upstate NY. What a hootenanny they now have in heaven - JJW, Steve Goodman, John Prine, Nancy Griffith, Ian Tyson, Gordon Lightfoot, Robbie Robertson and Jimmy Buffett.
I miss Texas SO much . People can say what they want , put us down and trash us - but I will always be proud that I grew up in Texas. Great memories that will never die..................
snottyxraygirl Fear not! You can always come home,every things the same(some transplants are weird)but mostly the same! We still don't take shi-! PS.From just about anyone!!
Another piece of my musical youth has gone to Terlingua in the sky....I wore huge grooves in Viva Terlinga..............what a record ...what an icon Jerry Jeff was to the so called "outlaw country" music scene....and to all us younguns who got to get drunk and screw :) Via Con Dios Maestre
While and I and a lot of my friends sang this song a lot back in our Austin, TX days I never got to see Gary and Jerry perform it live so this is the next best thing.
Born and raised in the midwest, right out of school I moved to Oklahoma and then Texas. The friendliest people and the prettiest women? 100% true! I came back north almost 30 years ago and not a day goes by that I don't regret that move. And this damn song doesn't help matters either. I wanna go home too!
That's okay, it just shows there are much fewer of us that have taste and recognize talent. I've seen Jerry Jeff, Gary, Billy Joe Shaver, Delbert McClinton, etc etc....many many times in small personal venues with every seat filled by good people. If they were a huge arena type acts, I would have never have the memories I enjoy now. Some of life's greatest pleasures and treasures should be shared and enjoyed by a select few that understand and truly deserve it. You're blessed you are one of them
We ain't that bad in London, now, honest, heard this first in the 70s with Jerry Jeff Walker. And I would like to add the best holiday I ever had was New York then driving round the Deep South, greetings from London!
Came here because the wonderful Jerry Jeff Walker just passed away and I'm going through some of my favorites of his (including like here, where he didn't write the song). No, you're not that bad, in fact you live in a lovely country, and this is the most good-natured counter-needling they could've done. In the mid-70s the UK was more different from the US than it is now, and Texas was more different from much of the rest of the US than it is now. I lived in Oklahoma and had been in London and people were fascinated at someone from so "exotic" a location and the tone was "how can someone from such a primitive place even make it to here?" If you had thin skin it would have been annoying but we thought it was hysterical and occasionally put on an act (we'd learned to do that with New Yorkers). This song captured all of that and still pulls me back 45 years to my teenage years. Take care and stay safe!
Grew up in same town as Gary. Got in a fight with his brother once. Saw Gary and Jerry play at Celebrity Theatre in Phoenix long ago. Gary is 3-4 yr older than me. RIP Jerry Jeff. RIP Steve Nunn.
amen! to all! I'm here in Tennessee, wishing I was back in Texas! For the 10th year we went to Willie's July 4 picnic, and back to Luckenbach, say what you will, Luckenbach is magical! It restores my soul every time! Go to the true home of the Armadillo, visit the Texas Hill Country, you'll leave 10 years younger and your faith in humanity will be restored!
Growing up in the 70's, I always considered this song as a Texas national anthem...still do.
It's the theme song to Austin City Limts
Jerry has officially gone home with the armadillo.
Thanks for all the memories, Jerry.
Rest in peace, Mate.
He had a big waterfront home in Belize. They sold his CDs in kiosks,
Where have all cowboy singers songwriters gone? Thank God for RUclips for the memories of days gone by.
Home on the range I guess.
What a blast from the past! This was unofficially our anthem of US drilling crews working on oil & gas rigs in the North Sea in the 80's. We usually drove the British crews crazy by us singing it pretty much non stop the last few days till crew change!
And we could start a roughneck ruckus in the pubs singing it !
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Tejas isTejas🎉
You cannot know how much joy this brought me tonight ❤
Rest in peace Jerry Jeff Walker. He finally went home with the armadillos. He left behind a lot of great music for us to enjoy. There you go.
How could anyone live anywhere but TEXAS? World's greatest musicians live in Texas, and so do I, for 31 years now. This song should be Texas' anthem.
I just saw Gary P. Nunn last Saturday night in Hamilton, Texas(pop2800). Small venue but big music. Open air on the town square. He's now age 77 and kicking it harder than ever!
Last great American poet of the 20th century. So much stuff going on in this song. ❤
I met Jerry Jeff Walker yesterday and told him that I was raised on his music. Will always remind me of my parents.
You don't have to be from Texas to love this song!
I miss Jerry...but am thankful that Gary P is still with us.
Yes, sir - Agreed. Just saw Gary P perform at Gruene hall this past weekend and he gave many nods to his old buddy Jackie Jack. It was a soul cleansing show.
Yes!
Going to see him tonight in Plano 🤠
I'm sitting in my house in Pflugerville, Texas right now... and this song STILL made me home sick...
Texas expat here. I do not miss the endless sprawl of Houston and Dallas Ft. Worth, but I often go back to the Hill Country and the endless South Texas Beaches. When I miss Texas, I sing this song and Patsy Cline.
RIP Jerry Jeff .......you made Texas proud. Godspeed my friend.
He's from New York...
@@BobPapadopoulos but lived most of his life in Texas so he's pretty much a texan
@@davidd9510 Hell, you don't have to be born in Texas or live there to love it.
@@philpearlman7088 amen!
@@BobPapadopoulos We adopted him.
This gives me chills down my back!!! I doesn't get much better than this.
JJ, Gary P, Cowboy Bob, and John Inmon captured magic in a bottle for a few years.
It hits ya where ya live, even if it's not in Texas
RIP Jerry Jeff.
How can you not grin for this song? Gotta love a venue with a pool table in the middle.
I am Brazilian and I love the North American country .... Brazil also has country music quality! Hug ......
Gary P. Nunn and of course, JJ Walker,' Time has neither diminished nor tarnished this song. Pure Freaking Genius. Both of ya.
Thank you for posting this song.
My lullaby... No joke, my dad would sing this all the time. Miss that man, but my baby girl is in London and she shared this song with her group. Proud moment.
I don't care where you are or where you're from this song will make you homesick for Texas.
yup yup
I gotta move to L.A. so you know I'm going to miss Texas. Then, God willing, we are retiring in London. I already miss Texas. I will always visit Texas as long as I can walk to get on a plane.
Not if you DO NOT leave Texas
I love Texas, born in upstate new York but spent a lot of time in west Texas in the military , I want to go home with the armadillo, friendliest people and the prettiest woman I've ever seen.....
You are right about that!
My kind of country music!
I spent 4 years in Texas. No place like it. Still America there. Greatest musicians, prettiest women and finest people
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I have had great experiences in Texas. But I cannot understand why they vote in people like Ted Cruz and Abbott.
Because we want
to !!!!;
Rest in Peace Jerry Jeff Walker. You will be missed.
this song is great, and so easy to relate to. Anyone any where can enjoy this.
And I'm a westcoast Canadian. JJW rules
Your great and i love your song but gee i really miss Mr JJW. Saw you guys in Melbourne roughly about 40 years ago., Really sad that Australia missed that concert in Melbourne . Only about 200 people there. Fuck me you guys were the most electric band i ever ever had the privilege to see. We may have been present BUT you guys were in your own world just played for your selves.. So into your zones . What a privalige it was to the 200 or so people present. In love wth JJW before we left the concert. Would have left my husband that night for him. Miss him and you guys so much.
I’m from Massachusetts but I really love this song.
"Happy" Energy combined with excellent musicianship. THEY FILL MY LIVING ROOM
Nobody ever had as much fun as Jerry Jeff Walker!
Had the absolute pleasure of seeing JJ & band in Melbourne Australia in 1983. RIP Jerry Jeff you were the real deal..
Jerry Jeff Walker's music takes me back to Texas when my sister lived there. The dive bars were something to remember. I never did get the hang of the two-step, though.
I wish people loved America, like texans love Texas💛
❤
I wish Texans weren't such egomaniacs. ;)
Bill, I've been all over the country and seen a whole mess of the world. Texas is great. But it's not as if the rest of the country is crap and we don't love the US. I'm tired of this attitude. Texas, it's just another state. The other 49 are pretty cool too.
Nice comment!
I don't live in Texas anymore. 😪
I am homesick for it everyday.
One of the happiest days of my life was the first time I saw Texas - in the rear view mirror.
Thank you for lifting my spirits, both Mr. Nunn and Mr. Walker. Wife in hospital, not well. You made me feel better, but that's the power of music, n'est pas?
The best performance of this song EVER!
This should be the national anthem of Texas,long over due............
This brings back so many GREAT memories. Texas Outlaw Music. Alas, nothing lasts forever.
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One of the best Country songs of the, 20th Century. A special thank you to Jerry Jeff Walker, for making it all possible.
absolutely have alwakys considered this one of my alll time favorites since a kid.........luvvvv it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A BIG LONE STAR SALUTE TO YOU JERRY A TRUE GIFT TO TEXAS YOU WERE .RIP COWBOY..
Oh, such memories! The most fun we ever had in our lives was living in the Hill Country in the 1970s. Armadillo World Headquarters, Luckenbach, Floores' Country Store in Helotes....and the lovely, gorgeous Guadalupe River. This makes me homesick, too, and for a place that isn't there anymore.
Truly a wonderful classic. Did not get any better.
Have too many people lost the ability to have real fun and love of what their doing like musicians and music lovers getting off on the pleasure and fun of enjoying and doing what they love? Can’t hear this song without smiling , cheering, and wanting to join in
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Sure l like this grand tune, with Gary P. Nunn and Jerry Jeff Walker. It couldn`t be better right now 😎
I was at TCU and grew to love this song. Great tune. Jerry Jeff is such a good guy, too.
Great to see Gary again. His gift for self-deprecating humor lives.
One of my favourite songs..lived in Austin when it came out! Just about lived @ the Dillo
I now play only in a jam band; yet a group with an agenda and set lists. I stumbled upon this masterpiece maybe a year ago. Is there really a better sing-along tune to close out a night than Gary P.’s? And this live version is a national treasure. So glad JJW invited Gary P. to do it.
Our 70's hero of song!! RIP our Texas Troubadour
OMG... and so many times at the Armadillo in Austin and Luckenback too! And dance halls in Gruene and elsewhere in Central Texas in the early 70s! Them were the days...
2022. and it STILL doesn't get any better than this.
First time I saw Gary P was in 1974 or 75 in Hico TX. My freshman year at Tarleton State. Been a fan ever since.
There should be more of this. This is fun.
We just got to Austin last night and this came up on my feed. lol. A few months ago when in Austin I ran into Jerry Jeff's son. Jerry Jeff had passed and both of us had some memories to share..... Thanks for the post.
One of my favorite songs from back in the day. Still a sing along song!!!
it just don't get much better than this....thanks for posting
Pure Gonzo! Love ya Jerry Jeff and Gary P. We Texans really are unique. That's why people hate us. You don't like what you don't understand or you fear. God Bless from Baytown Texas
This is so true. I feel the same way. I was born here, am living & God willin' I'll die here. Did some travelin over the years,but there is no place on earth like ",Texas".
My man JJW is from new York.....
Gary P Nunn is the man.. just watched him do this live in Texas about 15 minutes ago
bob Awesome!!!!
Saw JJ and the Lost Gonzo Band in a little bar in N. Hollywood. Not sure of the date, late '70's, early "80's. After closing time with power off, they went acoustic 'til the cops came. Invited remaining fans to their hotel bar. 'Bout 20 of us went and they played adlib for another couple hours. Blew me away. I lived in Hawaii, and there's the best of performances there, but nothing before or since, could compare to that night in Hollywood (that's where the hotel was)!
This Song Really Makes Me Lonesome For That Ole Lone Star State
My god I love this song and every person on that stage!!
The greatest Texas cosmic cowboy song ever!!!!!!!! Gary P Nunn, Jerry Jeff , Lost gonzos, thats like Waylon, Willie , Asleep at the Wheel , Bob Wills and Ernest Tubb!!! now thats Texas style country..when country was ugly, not all GQ..lol
Got baptized to this song in 74 in Tempe, AZ. at the Cave Bar. Good times.
Gives me goosebumps. Takes me back.
Viva terilingua, I was there just moved to Texas from California and the California jam, August of 1974 made me a country fan
Will always love Jerry Jeff Walker’s music! R.I.P.
I wanna go home with the armadillo to. I remember my dad used to play this song when i was little and now god rest his soul i play it today. i love you dad.
I danced at the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin and think about those by gone days when I hear this wonderful song.
Sam Hopkins Wasn’t the Armadillo World Headquarters the best!!!!
What a great TEXAS classic !!!! My grandparents lived in Gladewater, Texas!
14 miles down the road,been here all my 64 years
Wouldn’t it be kick ass to go back in time and be at that jam
GPN and JJF never stop "delivering" on GPN's signature song "London Homesick Blues." A TEXAS SIZE THANK YOU to BRod313 for posting this fabulous video
That is a musical masterpiece. Thank you for sharing, sir.
All I know we used to listen to Jerry up here in MN in the 70's. He gives us good memories. TX I am still pissed that you have our North Stars. Love the cowboys!
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I thank you kindly, Claude.
Bout that I seen him in Nocadoches Texas, never experienced such wild respect for our fellow man. Thank you Sir.
I interviewed JJW. in the early 70s when I was a DJ on the Northeastern University radio station. What a great guy and wrote. some fun music. Never realized he was from upstate NY.
What a hootenanny they now have in heaven - JJW, Steve Goodman, John Prine, Nancy Griffith, Ian Tyson, Gordon Lightfoot, Robbie Robertson and Jimmy Buffett.
This is one of my all time favorites... makes me think of my family in Texas but it also makes me sad that I am not in texas!!!
Hello Doreen how are you doing 💕👋👋👋
I miss Texas SO much . People can say what they want , put us down and trash us - but I will always be proud that I grew up in Texas. Great memories that will never die..................
snottyxraygirl Fear not!
You can always come home,every things the same(some transplants are weird)but mostly the same!
We still don't take shi-!
PS.From just about anyone!!
I live in Ohio and spent a week in Kileen a couple of years ago. It was just terrific. The Texas people are polite, friendly and fun.
Gary Tucker Delta Moon
Unfortunately, Texas is changing, too...
Me: I blame it on the Republicans.
A State of Hate and that's coming from an Abilene boy.
Another piece of my musical youth has gone to Terlingua in the sky....I wore huge grooves in Viva Terlinga..............what a record ...what an icon Jerry Jeff was to the so called "outlaw country" music scene....and to all us younguns who got to get drunk and screw :) Via Con Dios Maestre
While and I and a lot of my friends sang this song a lot back in our Austin, TX days I never got to see Gary and Jerry perform it live so this is the next best thing.
This reminds me of the jam sessions we played at the Golden Tee in the seventies for some reason. Love it
Born and raised in the midwest, right out of school I moved to Oklahoma and then Texas. The friendliest people and the prettiest women? 100% true! I came back north almost 30 years ago and not a day goes by that I don't regret that move. And this damn song doesn't help matters either. I wanna go home too!
That's okay, it just shows there are much fewer of us that have taste and recognize talent. I've seen Jerry Jeff, Gary, Billy Joe Shaver, Delbert McClinton, etc etc....many many times in small personal venues with every seat filled by good people. If they were a huge arena type acts, I would have never have the memories I enjoy now. Some of life's greatest pleasures and treasures should be shared and enjoyed by a select few that understand and truly deserve it. You're blessed you are one of them
We ain't that bad in London, now, honest, heard this first in the 70s with Jerry Jeff Walker. And I would like to add the best holiday I ever had was New York then driving round the Deep South, greetings from London!
Came here because the wonderful Jerry Jeff Walker just passed away and I'm going through some of my favorites of his (including like here, where he didn't write the song).
No, you're not that bad, in fact you live in a lovely country, and this is the most good-natured counter-needling they could've done.
In the mid-70s the UK was more different from the US than it is now, and Texas was more different from much of the rest of the US than it is now. I lived in Oklahoma and had been in London and people were fascinated at someone from so "exotic" a location and the tone was "how can someone from such a primitive place even make it to here?" If you had thin skin it would have been annoying but we thought it was hysterical and occasionally put on an act (we'd learned to do that with New Yorkers). This song captured all of that and still pulls me back 45 years to my teenage years.
Take care and stay safe!
Ever heard England Swings?
This could easily be the best song in the world
64 years old, Texas PROUD!!!
Massachusetts ain’t gotta song like this. Texas Forever.
But JJW use to perform at the Harvard Square Theater quite frequently in the 70's and sing this song...he was from Upstate NY
How wrong you are! ruclips.net/video/Nmu6UMxUiUE/видео.htmlsi=jopH6SjknmxMmGah
God I love this song!
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Grew up in same town as Gary. Got in a fight with his brother once. Saw Gary and Jerry play at Celebrity Theatre in Phoenix long ago. Gary is 3-4 yr older than me. RIP Jerry Jeff. RIP Steve Nunn.
I love this song. Period. Love it.
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Great song-performance, thanks. Many Happy New Year/s y'all.
Brilliant song !
Yes that truth,Hello how are you doing👋👋👋👋
Good old song , not heard before, Thanks ~ Arthur
THAT was worth the price of admission! Any Time!!!
God Bless Gary P Nunn and RIP Jerry Jeff Walker
My late husband grew up with Gary P. In Brownfield TX and his dad was one Floyd’s teachers!!!
amen! to all! I'm here in Tennessee, wishing I was back in Texas! For the 10th year we went to Willie's July 4 picnic, and back to Luckenbach, say what you will, Luckenbach is magical! It restores my soul every time! Go to the true home of the Armadillo, visit the Texas Hill Country, you'll leave 10 years younger and your faith in humanity will be restored!
Yes you make a good point in your comment,Hello Vivian how are you doing 👋👋👋👋
My favorite song to listen to when I'm away from home. I must have played it every day on my Iraq deployments.
Listening to GaryP is like listening to Prez DonaldJ , mighty pleasing to an ole county boy. Thanks, Boom,Boom!
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Late nightz out at the beach with my family n friends always end with this 😆🙌🏻 + up against the wall no one can leave without knowing every word 😂😂
So much fun listening to them & the audience!
We opened for Gary P. once in Austin. Pretty cool.
My favorite tune. RIP JJW