I Don't Want To Live In Texas When It's May

[Theodore Kloba]

I just posted this new video to YouTube:

 

 

I wrote the music and performed all the instrumental parts; my mom wrote the lyrics & sang.

 

A bit of background:

 

A few years ago my mom, who's an avid gardener and garden blogger started writing a series of poems called Love Songs for Flower Nerds. For "I Don't Want to Live in Texas When It's May", she thought it needed a western/folk song. I wrote the music for her. It's taken a while, but we finally got the music all together and she recorded the vocals the last time she visited.

 

The song contains a lot of references to her former home in Lombard, Illinois, known for its lilacs, especially the collection at Lilacia Park.