IF YOU EVER GO TO HOUSTON





IF YOU EVER GO TO HOUSTON





If you ever go to Houston

Better walk right

Keep your hands in your pockets

And your gun-belt tight

You'll be asking for trouble

If you're lookin' for a fight

If you ever go to Houston

Boy, you better walk right

If you're ever down there

On Bagby and Lamar

You better watch out for

The man with the shining star

Better know where you're going

Or stay where you are

If you're ever down there

On Bagby and Lamar

I know these streets

I've been here before

I nearly got killed here

During the Mexican war

Something always

Keeps me coming back for more

I know these streets

I've been here before

If you ever go to Dallas

Say hello to Mary Anne

Say I'm still pullin' on the trigger

Hangin' on the best that I can

If you see her sister Lucy

Say I'm sorry I'm not there

Tell her other sister Betsy

To pray the sinner's prayer

I got a restless fever

Burnin' in my brain

Got to keep ridin' forward

Can't spoil the game

The same way I leave here

Will be the way that I came

Got a restless fever

Burnin' in my brain

Mr. Policeman

Can you help me find my gal

Last time I saw her

Was at the Magnolia Hotel

If you help me find her

You can be my pal

Mr. Policeman

Can you help me find my gal

If you ever go to Austin

Fort Worth or San Antone

Find the bar rooms I got lost in

And send my memories home

Put my tears in a bottle

Screw the top on tight

If you ever go to Houston

You better walk right





PERFORMANCES


09/05/05 - Dublin, Ireland

09/05/06 - Dublin, Ireland

09/07/08 - Louisville, Kentucky

09/07/10 - Dayton, Ohio

09/07/11 - Eastlake, Ohio

09/07/13 - Washington, Pennsylvania

09/07/14 - Allentown, Pennsylvania

09/07/17 - Essex Junction, Vermont

09/07/19 - Syracuse, New York

09/07/28 - Durham, North Carolina

09/08/02 - The Woodlands, Texas

09/08/07 - Grand Prairie, Texas

09/08/09 - Albuquerque, New Mexico

09/10/05 - Seattle, Washington

09/10/15 - Los Angeles, California

09/10/17 - Phoenix, Arizona

09/10/27 - Rockford, Illinois

09/11/02 - Bloomington, Indiana

09/11/05 - Canton, Ohio

09/11/11 - Fairfax, Virginia

09/11/17 - New York City, New York

10/03/24 - Tokyo, Japan

10/06/19 - Dornbirn, Austria

10/10/29 - Kalamazoo, Michigan

10/10/30 - Chicago, Illinois

10/10/31 - Indianapolis, Indiana

11/04/13 - Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong

11/07/14 - Santa Barbara, California

11/07/18 - Phoenix, Arizona

11/07/19 - Tucson, Arizona

11/07/21 - Albuquerque, New Mexico

11/07/23 - Thackerville, Oklahoma






















"IF YOU EVER GO TO HOUSTON" was released in April 2009 on the album
"Together Through Life", recorded in the fall of 2008.

The first live performance of "IF YOU EVER GO TO HOUSTON" was in Dublin, Ireland,
on May 5th 2009, and the second performance only one day later, also in Dublin.
I was glad to be a part of both audiences witnessing these first two
stage appearances of any song from "Together Through Life".

Eleven times it was performed during the 2009 summer tour, and during the fall
tour of 2009 "IF YOU EVER GO TO HOUSTON" appeared another eight times.

The first performance of "IF YOU EVER GO TO HOUSTON" in 2010 was in March,
in Tokyo, Japan; and the next one was almost three months later, in Dornbirn, Austria.
In the US the only appearances in 2010 of "IF YOU EVER GO TO HOUSTON" were in the fall,
when it was performed during three consecutive shows at the end of October.

In April 2011 Dylan chose to perform "IF YOU EVER GO
TO HOUSTON" during his second show in Hong Kong;
and in the summer of 2011 it appeared five times in the US.
In Europe it was not performed at all in 2011.









Biblical references:


~ Psalm 56:8 ~


You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?









~ MP3 ~ IF YOU EVER GO TO HOUSTON ~
~ DUBLIN ~ MAY 5, 2009 ~





~ MP3 ~ IF YOU EVER GO TO HOUSTON ~
~ PHOENIX ~ OCTOBER 17, 2009 ~





~ MP3 ~ IF YOU EVER GO TO HOUSTON ~
~ INDIANAPOLIS ~ OCTOBER 31, 2010 ~





~ MP3 ~ IF YOU EVER GO TO HOUSTON ~
~ PHOENIX ~ JULY 18, 2011 ~