(This Then Is Texas)
From the film “Giant”, 1956.
Words by Paul Francis Webster.
Music by Dimitri Tiomkin.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Austin and Houston and Alamo
El Paso, Crystal City, Waco
- Just like a sleeping Giant
Sprawling in the sun
In one great hand the Rio Grande
In the other Galveston
Where oil wells laugh at Angels
And buzzards wheel above
Refrain
This then is Texas
Lone-Star State of Texas
This then is Texas
Land I love
- My Ma was born in Dallas
Father in Fort Worth
You can bet your boots I got my roots
In the good old Texas earth
Just see the silver dollars
Falling from above
Refrain
This then is Texas
Lone-Star State of Texas
This then is Texas
Land I love
- God made these lonely acres
Where I ride alone
But the devil cursed this land with thirst
And he bleached it like bone
One day a wild tornado
Next a gentle dove
Refrain
This then is Texas
Lone-Star State of Texas
This is the Giant
Land I love
Land I love
Land I love