#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# Banks of the Old Bandera by Rodney Crowell On the banks of the ole Bandera runs a barefoot child Takin' Sunday-go-to-meetin' shortcuts He's out across those open fields, down those dusty drives The hills that wear blue bonnets, they look like a print dressing gown Thru the summer rains, that pur down like honey They help make the mushrooms grow and that always make the B-man dance Once we ran barefoot through those clovers so wet with dew Like wild Comanches' crazy horses on the loose Chorus: Sometimes it feels like a song Sometimes it makes me feel like it's gone Now it all feels like a song You can hear a screen door slammin', hey let's run a foot race to the creek Where you see clear down to the bottom of the deep end Dependin' on where you stand, how you look, and what you want to see Monkey vines, swimmin' holes - weren't they always around the bend And that rope we used to swing on, now it just hangs tattered by the wind Chorus Down on the banks of the ole Bandera