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

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:14 PM -0500 11/29/06, Laurence Horn wrote:
>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"?
>
Oops. Just replayed the song in mind.  It's "Mama, don't let your
babies grow up to be cowboys".  (Or Cowboys.)  My bad.

LH

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