Texas phrases (If ifs and buts were candy and nuts...merry Christmas)

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Maybe someone can help on Texas phrase (only cite):
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22 March 1975, Port Arthur (TX) <i>News</i>, "Don Meredith the  actor -- the
only way is up," pg. 16:
Dandy Don, once described by a member of the press as resident humorist,
country philosopher and sometime Cosell-baiter during four seasons on ABC's
Monday Night Football, has become his own bluebird on the ground -- an East  Texas
slogan meaning he doesn't have to climb the tree to pick the eggs  anymore.
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I looked at the Yale Dictionary of Quotations, and "Don Meredith" is not
there. No "turn out the lights, the party's over"? So, I checked "Willie
Nelson," the song's author. No Willie Nelson??
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No "If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry  Christmas"??
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FYI, some recent Texas phrase posts (any help appreciated):
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_http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/if_ifs_and_buts_were_candy_an
d_nuts_wed_all_have_a_merry_christmas/_
(http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/if_ifs_and_buts_were_candy_and_nuts_wed_all_have_a_merry_christmas/
)
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_http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/stick_a_fork_in_him_hes_done/
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(http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/stick_a_fork_in_him_hes_done/)
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_http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/turn_out_the_lights_the_party
s_over/_
(http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/turn_out_the_lights_the_partys_over/)
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_http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/give_a_texan_an_enema_and_you
_can_bury_him_in_a_matchbox/_
(http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/give_a_texan_an_enema_and_you_can_bury_him_in_a_matchbox/)
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_http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/i_wish_it_would_rain_not_for_
me_cuz_ive_seen_it_but_for_my_7_year_old/_
(http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/i_wish_it_would_rain_not_for_me_cuz_ive_seen_it_but_for_my_7_yea
r_old/)
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_http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/if_god_didnt_want_us_to_eat_m
eat_he_wouldnt_have_invented_steak_sauce/_
(http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/if_god_didnt_want_us_to_eat_meat_he_wouldnt_have_invented_steak_
sauce/)

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