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Marfa Lights

from 'Bout Time by Chris Huff

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Spent time in Marfa; never saw the lights (although I tried). Locals told me stories of seeing even stranger things in the sky. Far west Texas…you have to want to go there to get there, and that’s a good thing.

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Gather ‘round here friends and neighbors, set the kids upon your knee / I’ve got a story to relate you may not believe / Now there’s witches, wizards, bats in belfries, vampires in the night / But out in ol’ West Texas, boys, they’ve got the Marfa Lights / On highway number ninety, out of Alpine heading west / Before you get to Marfa, you can put it to the test / Look to the horizon, down south towards Mexico / If you should see the lights come dancing…make you wish you weren’t alone / Old-timers say the lights were lanterns on the Rojas Ranch / Or sometimes Pancho Villa as he crossed the Rio Grande / Or maybe just a headlight down a lonesome desert road / On U.S. 67 from Shafter to Presidio / You can formulate opinions; this chapter’s far from done / It’s prob’ly just a locomotive on the Ojinaga run / Or maybe Villa’s ghost is riding lonely in the night / The only thing I’d bet on is they’re called the Marfa Lights / So gather ‘round here friends and neighbors, set the kids upon your knee / I’ve got a story to relate you may not believe / Now there’s witches, wizards, bats in belfries, vampires in the night / But out in ol’ West Texas boys, they’ve got the Marfa Lights / Out in ol’ West Texas boys, they’ve got the Marfa Lights.

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from 'Bout Time, released May 30, 2020
Don Bacoch, bass; Chris Huff, vocals & guitar

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Chris Huff Los Angeles, California

Chris Huff, plays original songs influenced by the likes of Guy Clark, John Prine, and Townes Van Zandt. Chris cut his musical teeth on the Austin bar circuit, opening for Butch Hancock, Bill & Bonnie Hearne, Shake Russell, Townes Van Zandt, Blaze Foley, Junior Brown, and others. He was selected twice to play in the Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk Concerts and is currently based in Los Angeles. ... more

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