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

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:03 PM -0500 11/29/06, Fred Shapiro wrote:
>On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>
>>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??
>
>So now I can look forward to years of being criticized for not including
>every minor saying of every sportscaster.  As for Willie Nelson,
>concededly a more important figure than Don Meredith, what exactly are his
>very famous lines (keeping in mind that his most famous song lyrics were
>written by other people)?
>
>Fred

Well, relevantly to Dandy Don as well as Willie, what about "Don't
let your friends grow up to be cowboys"?

LH

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