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Shoot Low Sheriff, an award-winning western swing band, which includes East Dallas-based band members, recorded a five-verse ode to the State Fair of Texas. The song was written by Rodger Jones, editorial writer for The Dallas Morning News.
The song is played to the tune of “Yellow Rose of Texas” and celebrates the fried food, games, rides and shows that attract millions of attendees every year.
You can listen to the “State Fair Romp” online. Just in case you’d like to sing along to the ditty, here are the lyrics:
It’s the great State Fair of Texas that I am bound to see,
No one who’s ever been there adores it more than me.
From the quiet of the morning to the light shows ev’ry night,
The fair, our bash extraordinaire, the Dallas fall delight.
Aboard the Texas Star – I’ll ride a mile in-to the air,
I gaze down on the Midway, and swarms of people there.
The food, the games – they call to me, a pull I can’t deny,
Let’s eat, let’s play, let’s frolic till we get back flyin’ high.
The funnel cakes, the corny dogs, the sausage on a stick,
Cotton candy, turkey legs and nachos with a kick.
“Ev’ry one’s a winner!” goes up the barker’s cry,
But I lose half my wad of cash no matter how I try.
Quilts and crafts and china dolls, collectibles galore,
Blue ribbons hang on cakes and pies and pickles by the score.
Ranch kids scrub their cows and prod their pigs into the ring,
The livestock judge – he gives a nod and makes the child a king.
My legs are gettin’ wobbly now; my feet tell me it’s late,
I’ll grab a box of taffy while headin’ for the gate.
I may have missed a thing or two but surely meant no slight,
Another Fair of Texas guarantees I’ll sleep tonight.
