Cowtown

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song name	Cowtown
artist	They Might Be Giants
album	Lincoln, Then: The Earlier Years, Best Of The Early Years, Dial-A-Song: 20 Years Of They Might Be Giants
year	1988
first played	1982-08-?? (63 known performances)
run time	2:21
sung by	John Flansburgh (sings first refrain and second verse alone); John Linnell (sings first verse alone)

This was one of the songs played by TMBG at their very first live show. It was supposedly written by Linnell in the '70s, when he was in Boston.
Introduced at the February 2008 Beacon Theatre show as being the first song that John and John learned how to play together as a band.
This song may have been inspired by Fort Worth, Texas whose nickname is Cowtown. The line "The Yellow Roosevelt Avenue leaf overturned" sounds like The Yellow Rose of Texas, which gives creedence to this theory.

Current Rating

Cowtown is currently ranked #70 out of 803. (221 wikians have given it an average rating of 8.97)