I did 8 years in prison. when I got out, this song was playing at the grayhound in corpus Christi. I was on my way back to Houston. my home. I was locked up for drugs. been clean 16 years now. never forget that day, I was free, clean and on my way back home.
My mom was fighting cancer but she didnt tell us she was dying. One night as I left the hpspital, I rode home crying because I couldn't stand watching her suffer. I begged God to end her suffering, even if it meant she wouldn't be here anymore. This song was playing, as it had in my home as a child, and I couldnt stop crying because part of me knew this was the end for my mom. I still go back to that moment when I hear it. He answered my prayer the next day. She went into a coma and slipped away. Idk why im sharing this.
God bless you trix. I'm sorry for your loss. I found my dad dead in the floor when I was 12. I woke up March 2nd 2002, it was a Saturday, I went into the living room and found my father laying in the living room floor dead. I'll always remember that day and the things that happened. I've never had any kind of psychological help, or any kind of counseling. It eats me at times. But I try to make it through. Idk why I'm saying any of this either, it helps to talk about it I guess. Anyways God bless you.
Sorry for the loss of your mom and the pain it caused. I Lost my mother to cancer 11 yrs ago, I played this song this morning and cried thinking of her because it was a favorite of hers. This song played many times in my home also.
My dad could do this song so well at Karaoke. I listen to this every time I think of him, and so now, its on my dialy playlist. Love you and miss you dad ❤
ive not lived in texas for over 5 years and its been that long since ive had me a triple whataburger with jalapenos and cheese i use to eat there every friday i would always eat at the one in Bedford next to the on ramp to the 121 good memories.
This is real country music. This comes from a country girl with generations of country running in her blood and sung to her every night before bed. This is the music that makes me happy. I don't understand why people take time out of their lives to give this masterpiece a dislike! Who takes the time out of their day to give hate?!?!
This song reminds me of my Grandaddy and traveling from Oklahoma to Colorado Springs.. Whenever we passed thru Amarillo we always cranked up this song full blast, opened the windows and sang at the top of our lungs.. I miss him and my sweet little Granny and our many travels.. Now they are traveling with Jesus.. Great times.. Sure do miss them..
What a beautiful song. God bless you and your family I lost my adopted parents one year ago. I am not sure why things happen that way. I keep praying to God and angels everyday of my life
I've never really been much of a country fan...but this song is and always will be near and dear to my heart. ♡♡ My grandfather loved this song...he always played it and sang it....we lost him to cancer back in July and this song was played at his funeral. Rest in peace Grandpa Joe, I love you and miss you every day. I know you're still listening to this song with me :)
One of the best songs ever in any genre of music....and what a hook.,..it stays with you. I also passed through Amarillo a few times when trucking....I want to go and look around when I have more time...
Being born and raised in Texas, we have special super powers. 1. know the words to every George Strait song 2. can smell bbq from over 50 miles away 3. can withstand over 100 degree heat
I'm from VA, born, raised, and still call home, I have all of those special super powers as well! We can agree to disagree on what constitutes BBQ pork or beef, but #1 and #3 we can agree on 100%.
I lived in California all my life when I got married I had 2 girls and moved to amarillo that's where my boy was born I love Amarillo where my kids where raised and now I live in florida.this songs makes me so nostalgic.
Ever since I spent 6 months in texas for the air force I just cant stop listening to country, I remember this song came on the day I graduated Basic training when I got to drive around san antonio with my family I hadnt seen in months. This song hits home for me.
AIR FORCE! YOUR A GOOD MAN! THANK YOU FOR SERVING OUR COUNTRY!!! I have 2 children that were in the Air Force and both Veterans. Be proud of yourself. Hope you made it a career! Can't go wrong!
"Amarillo by Morning" is a country music song written by Terry Stafford and Paul Fraser, and recorded by Stafford in 1973. Several cover versions have since been made, including a major 1983 hit for George Strait. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
A true classic!! One of my favorite GS Songs but then again, they are all my favorite! Country music legend! I was blessed to be able to take my love and my mom to the concert in Denver this year! Priceless memories
Here we are in our homestate going cross country from CA TO NJ. I enjoy riding in the semi with my honey listening to songs about the places we travel to and through like small towns and big cities. God is great. God bless George.
I never been to Texas so on our trip to Missouri from Az to see my son graduate from the Army.. Amarillo by morning is my favorite song ever since I was a little boy so when we got to Amarillo by morning I had to play this song.. being with my kids and wife it is something I will never forget... KING GEORGE
I went to college in Austin, TX in the late 70’s/early 80’s. There was a dance hall in what was then far NW Austin called The Silver Spur or the Golden Saddle--I’m almost 60 now and can’t remember the name, but it was a precious metal combined with some ranching implement. Anyway , on Tuesday or Thursday nights you could get in free with your student ID and buy a massive pitcher of beer for just $2.00. It was a sprawling place back then, filled with handsome , wealthy young, frat boys in their starched Polo button downs, Levi’s and boots. They wreaked of Lavoris, Ralph Lauren products and beer. It was glorious. “Amarillo by Morning” was the one song I remember played. I’m not a country music fan, but that song was on the soundtrack of my life at age 19. By the way, in Texas circa 1979: you could buy alcohol at age 18. My roommate and I would go there as often as we could and dance the night away. I remember those golden years and this song takes me back to a wonderful time in my life when I was young and cute and thin. Sigh....I used to have a fantastic metabolism. It was like a blast furnace when I was younger. I could take a One A Day vitamin with iron..... and fart nails two hours later. Youth. It’s so wasted on the young.
My dad loved this song. A long time ago we were passing through Texas and stopped off at a truck stop in Amarillo, where they had some meat loaf he really liked, and some of those old table-top jukeboxes that had this very song on them. So every time he heard it after that, he'd remember that truck stop and his favorite meat loaf! :D
EMarie61 Me and my father used to hail scraps like soda cans or metal junk to Amarillo and on the way we stopped by a restraunt and get Biscuits and Gravy. Good times
watching a TH-camr singing this song got me hooked listen to this song and true Country oldies, the song 's lyric just stirred up emotions inside, reflecting how i live my simple life.
+Travis Paysen I wasn't comparing the musicians. I was comparing a similar thought from the two songs. BTW - You do realize, I hope that MANY other musicians, including Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings, did a cover of that song.
Amarillo by morning. Up from San Antone. Everything that I got, is just what I've got on. When that sun is high in that Texas sky, I'll be buckin' at the county fair. Amarillo by mornin' Amarillo, I'll be there. Awe hell yeah!!! Can't beat this country music.
i started listening to country music when I was somewhere 17 and in African it's rare to find someone of my age listening to country I get a lot of questions but why of all songs can't lie i find peace and learn a lot in most of it every time before I go to bed I make a playlist and it takes me in deep sleep
George Strait - Amarillo By Morning es la cancion que refleja toda mi vida. Thanks for sharing....Tiene un fondillo a lo Against the wind de Seger... Me encanta!
This song was my late brothers favorite song..I often play it and think of the good times we all had together I miss you bro but I know you are safe in heaven with mom ❤
takes me back to riding in the car with my grandma while this cassette tape played. along with so many other great 80's and 90's country. this is music with so much feels.
everyone please try to just understand how much meaning and beauty the king sang here, on one of his many masterpieces. “everything that i got, is just what i got on. i ain’t got a dime but what i got is mine, i ain’t rich but Lord am i free.”. this has been stuck in my mind since my early childhood that had been ruined by my family’s need for constant greed, control, drug & alcohol addiction and early child prostitution in order to receive these drugs. i used this as my life quote, whether i was happy or sad, rich or broke and even married or alone. but all i knew was that all of our days of happiness will come. now i’m happy, broke nor rich, and happily engaged. and yup! amarillo is where i’ll be! 💞
When me and my family were moving up from Texas to Wyoming (Driving), I kept restarting this song every time it ended, or listened closely whenever it came on, I ironic thing was is that we actually reached Amarillo by sunrise...
Delta Zulue my bae died before his 16th. I live because of him. A psychic told me once she saw a young man near me. ...he was bucking it to county fair in the sky. He was looking for eight when they pulled that gate. Amarillo's where he'll be.
I actually tear up when I hear "and friends are friends forever if the Lord is Lord of them.. And a Friend will not say Never . ".... But ultimately ...
I am not from that country_ Texas. I heard this from the radio , a long time ago but when I heard this again from Enkh Erdene, my memory came back. I love the lyrics and the melody. Beautiful! Thank you George Strait!.
No disrespect to Terry Stafford, who wrote and originally recorded it, nor to Chris Ledoux, a great singer, but Strait just nails this in a way the others do not. Just my opinion...and that solo fiddle fade out is just right for the song. Somewhere in my top 10 among the greatest country songs ever written.
This song has the vibe of a simpler era gone by. Naivete, nostalgia, heartache, passion... The simplicity of a band and an amazing vocalist is so powerful in conveying emotions. No fluff, no drum machines, no hype. Just close your eyes and let George Strait take you on a journey.
My husband and his mother sang this song on the greyhound bus when they were going to Troutdale, Oregon. The bus actually went to Amarillo from San Antonio, Texas.
I know, I hate those kinds I like don Williams at least its about being with your wife and in love, not singing about an affair or something, I dislike those songs
+Alex & His Meal Ticket uh they are pathetic and set great examples for the public to only think about sex all the time and be a disgusting cess pool of a "civilization" fuck face
The first true country song of my life in the early 80's. I danced miles around the floor of the Country Side outside the back gate to Camp Pendelton when I was a young Marine. Meet one of my first true loves there, Debbie, Sorry we lost touch. D4RODEO was her personal CA, license plate. Such good times. Scott
I was born in Corpus Christi, and am a son of the Great State of Texas. I miss those days living there, and in Waco. I'm a Zony and computer geek now, but I worked on a ranch and ride when I'm lucky. I still have that starry expanse of sky to sit under, AZ is so beatiful, and look up to. The Southwest is so amazing. I do so much like Amarillo by Morning. It takes me to another place somehow.
renragged ...so did my mother...I was maybe 4 or five when this was popular...as a kid I could stand anything she played...and now at the age of 38 I love her music...it was real music
Puts me in a squarebody truck when I was in my late teens, on a cold night, all the corn is down snow flurries, and its pitch black dark outside.........its one of my happy places
Five people you love w/o being "much of a country fan": George Strait, Keith Whitley, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Allison Krause. Also anything duoed or covered by Dolly Parton. Every truly musical soul loves "Jolene" it's made Miley Cyrus look like a philosopher.
lanna lane I ain't got a dime, but what I got is mine. Wow, does that resonate! That song sure takes me to a better place and time than the one portrayed on the evening news. Amarillo is where I'll be
This song is actually sad to me... putting your love and devotion into something that will never love you back. In this case, it's the rodeo, but this type of sacrifice is seen in so many different pursuits in this world that people literally kill themselves for. The message of chasing after the wind is really what I get out of this song.
You’re not kidding. It took a set of orders to get me out of Texas and I went kicking and screaming. I can’t wait to get back home. I swear I’m gonna hit every Whataburger from Texarkana to home !!!
I have been there , where everything that I had was what I had on ! Thank Almighty GOD That's not me now ! I have my own home now and it's paid for ! Why because Almighty GOD Loves me ! That's the only reason I can think of !
It's very honestly difficult to argue with your statement unless you listen to Modest Mouse, M83 or Lana Del Rey, you really have to hunt for authenticity now...and it used to be given to you on AM radio in your car like not a problem, David Lynch is here, this is the water and this the well...
Used to be a gangster travelling the West coast and one night I heard this song while passing thru Vegas.. I listened to my soul and thought about what a great cowboy I could have been. I decided to move back to the islands to make a change. We love you here in Samoa George Strait
I was heading that way with everything I had on and thank you to the best new hope man and his family...yall stay by my side the whole town of New Hope, Texas..Thank yall
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I did 8 years in prison. when I got out, this song was playing at the grayhound in corpus Christi. I was on my way back to Houston. my home. I was locked up for drugs. been clean 16 years now. never forget that day, I was free, clean and on my way back home.
Good for you..Welcome home Eric..
I’ve been smoking crack for 17 years. Started when I was 16
Glad you stayed clean, George would be proud too.
papa meme... now would be a good time to call it quits.
then fight like its for your life.
Luck of yours. It's not everybody has a chance like that. Enjoy it!
I'm here because of The World's Best, as an immigrant in the U.S. I fell in love with Country Music since day one.
It's a true shame that real country music rarely gets attention anymore. An absolute classic.
It's not a shame because there is no real country anymore. All the top 50 country songs are all pop garbage.
Exactly
Such is the world you are living in now , destroyed only going one way,God bless
All i know is,this was a hit back in the old days, and i still love it today.
Agreed
The last song my grandpa wanted to hear before he passed away. Rest in peace grandpa.
This was my mom’s favorite song, I played it for her while she was in the hospital right before she passed.
I have made that drive to Amarillo several times, while listening to this song... Never gets old! BRINGS A SMILE TO MY FACE EVERY TIME!
My mom was fighting cancer but she didnt tell us she was dying. One night as I left the hpspital, I rode home crying because I couldn't stand watching her suffer. I begged God to end her suffering, even if it meant she wouldn't be here anymore. This song was playing, as it had in my home as a child, and I couldnt stop crying because part of me knew this was the end for my mom. I still go back to that moment when I hear it. He answered my prayer the next day. She went into a coma and slipped away. Idk why im sharing this.
I'm sorry for your loss
I bet that was hard on you
Sorry for your loss 🙏 🙏
God bless you trix. I'm sorry for your loss. I found my dad dead in the floor when I was 12. I woke up March 2nd 2002, it was a Saturday, I went into the living room and found my father laying in the living room floor dead. I'll always remember that day and the things that happened. I've never had any kind of psychological help, or any kind of counseling. It eats me at times. But I try to make it through. Idk why I'm saying any of this either, it helps to talk about it I guess. Anyways God bless you.
Sorry for the loss of your mom and the pain it caused. I Lost my mother to cancer 11 yrs ago, I played this song this morning and cried thinking of her because it was a favorite of hers. This song played many times in my home also.
That song is true country poetry. You just have to put on some good headphones and enjoy the voice of the great George!!!
That was exactly i’m doin.
Best country so g ever
You dont need the headphones,just listen
That violin/fiddle does something to me.
It really does go to the bone, it adds a layer to the song.
Its a damn fine fiddle
Takes you to a Texan sky.
Me too especially at a club drinking a cold beer
And you ain’t lyin
My dad could do this song so well at Karaoke. I listen to this every time I think of him, and so now, its on my dialy playlist.
Love you and miss you dad ❤
My 27 yr old son loves this song..my baby boy,, I love you so much ..ur my world.
Texas.
rivers, beaches, lakes, forests, mountains, big urban cities, small rural towns, and Whataburger. Best Place in the World
jguerra0117 and HEB
And don't forget BBQ
ive not lived in texas for over 5 years and its been that long since ive had me a triple whataburger with jalapenos and cheese i use to eat there every friday i would always eat at the one in Bedford next to the on ramp to the 121 good memories.
and Buckey's!
Amen love Texas
Today's Country singers can't hold a candle to George
thats the truth
gimme George and Hank anyday
I agree with that
Brian Evans he's the king of country forever
Chris stapleton is the only one who can hold a candle to any of this
This is real country music. This comes from a country girl with generations of country running in her blood and sung to her every night before bed. This is the music that makes me happy. I don't understand why people take time out of their lives to give this masterpiece a dislike! Who takes the time out of their day to give hate?!?!
shuffle.
"This is the music that makes me happy." Me too.
One of the great country songs...being from the Big 🍎 Apple city here and knowing what that love lost is like
It’s just real country music
Real American
Real working class
Real people
Real country
Real American
Proud to be American
And glad to have ole George
This song reminds me of my Grandaddy and traveling from Oklahoma to Colorado Springs.. Whenever we passed thru Amarillo we always cranked up this song full blast, opened the windows and sang at the top of our lungs.. I miss him and my sweet little Granny and our many travels.. Now they are traveling with Jesus.. Great times.. Sure do miss them..
God bless them
What a beautiful song. God bless you and your family
I lost my adopted parents one year ago. I am not sure why things happen that way. I keep praying to God and angels everyday of my life
George Strait one of the truest cowboys of country music, a true legend.
But no wheres near as good as George Jones, and Hank Williams.
Song still reminds me of my dad, who was never there. But when he was, this song was playing. The older I get, the more I understand.
It's a song to remember those beyond our reach
I've never really been much of a country fan...but this song is and always will be near and dear to my heart. ♡♡ My grandfather loved this song...he always played it and sang it....we lost him to cancer back in July and this song was played at his funeral. Rest in peace Grandpa Joe, I love you and miss you every day. I know you're still listening to this song with me :)
One of the best songs ever in any genre of music....and what a hook.,..it stays with you. I also passed through Amarillo a few times when trucking....I want to go and look around when I have more time...
Being born and raised in Texas, we have special super powers.
1. know the words to every George Strait song
2. can smell bbq from over 50 miles away
3. can withstand over 100 degree heat
I'm from VA, born, raised, and still call home, I have all of those special super powers as well! We can agree to disagree on what constitutes BBQ pork or beef, but #1 and #3 we can agree on 100%.
@Aidon Salinas yup, 117 is the highest it's reached down here Texas 😂.
@Versión Autorizada 1611 true
I literally love the smell of bbq's, it is the most comforting smell.
amazing
Repeating this song for like 1000x now and still not getting tired,omg i love this song so crazy❤❤❤
This song touches my heart.It reminds me when I was broke and alone.
My favorite song of all time hands down!! KING GEORGE IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE ONE IF MIT MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE COUNTRY SINGER
this song makes me feel so homesick, George can make you feel his every word, no one like him.
I used to live in Amarillo, Texas but then I moved to California and listening to this song makes me miss 💔 Texas so much 💔
Why California??? 😕
I lived in California all my life when I got married I had 2 girls and moved to amarillo that's where my boy was born I love Amarillo where my kids where raised and now I live in florida.this songs makes me so nostalgic.
I live in Alaska,but I grew up in Amarillo,and Amarillo is always on my mind, Born a Texan and always will be.
North Western Ontario Canada..I miss country music.
God I love Texas! Thank you for Texas and Jesus and George Strait, amen🙏
okay Garth Brooks you are welcome.
God Bless you Baine!
Bless all who love and believe in our the one and only true God
It's worker 4 miranda Lambert
A wonderful song... I don't think that anyone can sing it like George Strait.
I can lol
Hmm alan jackson
Ever since I spent 6 months in texas for the air force I just cant stop listening to country, I remember this song came on the day I graduated Basic training when I got to drive around san antonio with my family I hadnt seen in months. This song hits home for me.
AIR FORCE! YOUR A GOOD MAN! THANK YOU FOR SERVING OUR COUNTRY!!! I have 2 children that were in the Air Force and both Veterans. Be proud of yourself. Hope you made it a career! Can't go wrong!
Thanks for your service
"Amarillo by Morning" is a country music song written by Terry Stafford and Paul Fraser, and recorded by Stafford in 1973. Several cover versions have since been made, including a major 1983 hit for George Strait. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
I am a truck driver, going on 12 years now. I suppose I parallel a rodeo cowboy. Late at night when I hear this it just fits. Thank you George.
A true classic!! One of my favorite GS Songs but then again, they are all my favorite! Country music legend! I was blessed to be able to take my love and my mom to the concert in Denver this year! Priceless memories
Here we are in our homestate going cross country from CA TO NJ. I enjoy riding in the semi with my honey listening to songs about the places we travel to and through like small towns and big cities. God is great. God bless George.
My brother is in the US Army, and is currently deployed. This is his favorite song, and when I hear it I always tear up.
I thank your brother for serving this beautiful country and I hope the best for him. God bless him and the US
Lived in Houston in the 80's and this song was burning up the airwaves.
I love being a TEXAN! George Strait is a must if you’re from here.
Amen brother
I never been to Texas so on our trip to Missouri from Az to see my son graduate from the Army.. Amarillo by morning is my favorite song ever since I was a little boy so when we got to Amarillo by morning I had to play this song.. being with my kids and wife it is something I will never forget... KING GEORGE
Good luck to you and your son!
I went to college in Austin, TX in the late 70’s/early 80’s. There was a dance hall in what was then far NW Austin called The Silver Spur or the Golden Saddle--I’m almost 60 now and can’t remember the name, but it was a precious metal combined with some ranching implement. Anyway , on Tuesday or Thursday nights you could get in free with your student ID and buy a massive pitcher of beer for just $2.00. It was a sprawling place back then, filled with handsome , wealthy young, frat boys in their starched Polo button downs, Levi’s and boots. They wreaked of Lavoris, Ralph Lauren products and beer. It was glorious. “Amarillo by Morning” was the one song I remember played. I’m not a country music fan, but that song was on the soundtrack of my life at age 19. By the way, in Texas circa 1979: you could buy alcohol at age 18.
My roommate and I would go there as often as we could and dance the night away. I remember those golden years and this song takes me back to a wonderful time in my life when I was young and cute and thin. Sigh....I used to have a fantastic metabolism. It was like a blast furnace when I was younger. I could take a One A Day vitamin with iron..... and fart nails two hours later.
Youth. It’s so wasted on the young.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤠 Fart Nails LMAO..... 👍🤘
One of the best TH-cam comments I've ever read.
My dad loved this song. A long time ago we were passing through Texas and stopped off at a truck stop in Amarillo, where they had some meat loaf he really liked, and some of those old table-top jukeboxes that had this very song on them. So every time he heard it after that, he'd remember that truck stop and his favorite meat loaf! :D
dena
+EMarie61 Hope you stopped by the Big Texan. Got excellent steak
I'm not sure...this was back in the Eighties. But if I ever get out that way again, I'll be looking for it. Thanks! :D
Great memory. ☺️
EMarie61 Me and my father used to hail scraps like soda cans or metal junk to Amarillo and on the way we stopped by a restraunt and get Biscuits and Gravy. Good times
My God I've been hearing this song for several months everyday and is so beautiful.
How can you listen to a song 100x per day on repeat at work for decades, and still get goosebumps and tears from it???!!
This isn't just one of the great songs ever, but with a different passion, this song is my life.
watching a TH-camr singing this song got me hooked listen to this song and true Country oldies, the song 's lyric just stirred up emotions inside, reflecting how i live my simple life.
This song gives me goosebumps! Makes me remember growing up going to rodeos with my dad. Very beautiful.
Driving cross my beloved Texas, this song is a must. ❤
that's true
A great song about a broke rodeo cowboy. That fiddle playing at the end is so haunting...mesmerising !
yes!!!
that electric guitar is perfect in the last verse too.
The sound of twin fiddles is what you hear. It is AWESOME !!!
Buddy Spicher playing fiddle...
Luisa
Phew... chills tears... and faith ~ you express it all George...
I feel so homesick when I listen to this song. Have never been away for this long... Thank you George for this amazing song ❤
I ain't got a dime but what I got is mine
I ain't rich but Lord I'm free
+F2D That reminds me of a line from another song: "Me and Bobby McGee" that goes: Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose.
+whazzuphere Bob Dylan Like a Rolling Stone maybe.
+whazzuphere How can you compare a nasty disgusting filthy no talent shit sucking hippie like Janis Joplin to George Straight????
+Travis Paysen I wasn't comparing the musicians. I was comparing a similar thought from the two songs. BTW - You do realize, I hope that MANY other musicians, including Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings, did a cover of that song.
+whazzuphere I dont care who covered it, Janis Joplin is a shit storm of scabbies and lice.
Amarillo by morning. Up from San Antone. Everything that I got, is just what I've got on. When that sun is high in that Texas sky, I'll be buckin' at the county fair. Amarillo by mornin' Amarillo, I'll be there.
Awe hell yeah!!! Can't beat this country music.
💝
I know the lyrics u butt pirate
I've been a cross-country trucker most of my life, whenever I cross the panhandle I start playing this song
i started listening to country music when I was somewhere 17 and in African it's rare to find someone of my age listening to country I get a lot of questions but why of all songs can't lie i find peace and learn a lot in most of it every time before I go to bed I make a playlist and it takes me in deep sleep
George Strait - Amarillo By Morning es la cancion que refleja toda mi vida. Thanks for sharing....Tiene un fondillo a lo Against the wind de Seger... Me encanta!
This song was my late brothers favorite song..I often play it and think of the good times we all had together I miss you bro but I know you are safe in heaven with mom ❤
I'm from Amarillo, so this song means so much to me... :)
This is such a beautiful song ; )
I have been to Amarillo Texas about six different times. Only to the Greyhound station though.... I always have a layover in Amarillo
Saul Flores It's actually a pretty good size city.
Carmen Muñoz Limas you're hot
que te quero entre mis brazos
This is 1 of my favourite songs. I only just discovered the song about a 2 weeks ago and i find it very relaxing when listening to it.
takes me back to riding in the car with my grandma while this cassette tape played. along with so many other great 80's and 90's country. this is music with so much feels.
everyone please try to just understand how much meaning and beauty the king sang here, on one of his many masterpieces.
“everything that i got, is just what i got on. i ain’t got a dime but what i got is mine, i ain’t rich but Lord am i free.”.
this has been stuck in my mind since my early childhood that had been ruined by my family’s need for constant greed, control, drug & alcohol addiction and early child prostitution in order to receive these drugs. i used this as my life quote, whether i was happy or sad, rich or broke and even married or alone. but all i knew was that all of our days of happiness will come. now i’m happy, broke nor rich, and happily engaged. and yup! amarillo is where i’ll be! 💞
When me and my family were moving up from Texas to Wyoming (Driving), I kept restarting this song every time it ended, or listened closely whenever it came on, I ironic thing was is that we actually reached Amarillo by sunrise...
My best friend died and they played this song at his funeral and every time I here it I tear up 😭
Delta Zulue sorry for ya loss
im sorry for your loss
Delta Zulue ich feel with you try to be strong gunni
Delta Zulue my bae died before his 16th. I live because of him. A psychic told me once she saw a young man near me. ...he was bucking it to county fair in the sky. He was looking for eight when they pulled that gate. Amarillo's where he'll be.
I actually tear up when I hear "and friends are friends forever if the Lord is Lord of them.. And a Friend will not say Never . ".... But ultimately ...
I ain't rich, but Lord, I'm free.
My favorite line in the entire song!
Amen...
Amen
edgexxi Amen
Jesse Nelson hey man i hear that !! #rightonbrother
I am not from that country_ Texas. I heard this from the radio , a long time ago but when I heard this again from Enkh Erdene, my memory came back. I love the lyrics and the melody. Beautiful! Thank you George Strait!.
2015 and this song is still on my playlist
Emily Garcia mine too!!
Mine too
+Emily Garcia ,Right. I Love this song
same
+Emily Garcia 2016 now. Still bow down to the king!
No disrespect to Terry Stafford, who wrote and originally recorded it, nor to Chris Ledoux, a great singer, but Strait just nails this in a way the others do not. Just my opinion...and that solo fiddle fade out is just right for the song. Somewhere in my top 10 among the greatest country songs ever written.
Terry stafford
Eflat Major Chris Ledoux wrote Amarillo by morning. George made it famous
Jeff Oliver you’re wrong. Terry Stafford wrote it.
@@jeffoliver8841 "Amarillo by Morning is a country music song written by Terry Stafford and Paul Fraser, and recorded by Stafford in 1973." -wikipedia
I love your songs so much it reminds me of I'm still in New Mexico and I love it
This song has the vibe of a simpler era gone by. Naivete, nostalgia, heartache, passion...
The simplicity of a band and an amazing vocalist is so powerful in conveying emotions. No fluff, no drum machines, no hype. Just close your eyes and let George Strait take you on a journey.
My husband and his mother sang this song on the greyhound bus when they were going to Troutdale, Oregon. The bus actually went to Amarillo from San Antonio, Texas.
I ain't rich but lord I'm free.............can't get any better than that!
zahkuz61 I say it all the time
Amen Brother!
Aw yeah, songs that had absolutely nothing to do with sex. Good times.
I know, I hate those kinds I like don Williams at least its about being with your wife and in love, not singing about an affair or something, I dislike those songs
What's wrong with songs about sex?
+Alex & His Meal Ticket uh they are pathetic and set great examples for the public to only think about sex all the time and be a disgusting cess pool of a "civilization" fuck face
+Alex & His Meal Ticket I'll tell you what's wrong with em' that's nothing to sing about it just ruins a song
LOL have you heard George's song "Overnight Male"???
listening while riding my bike through the countryside … awesome :)
The first true country song of my life in the early 80's. I danced miles around the floor of the Country Side outside the back gate to Camp Pendelton when I was a young Marine. Meet one of my first true loves there, Debbie, Sorry we lost touch. D4RODEO was her personal CA, license plate. Such good times. Scott
I was born in Corpus Christi, and am a son of the Great State of Texas. I miss those days living there, and in Waco. I'm a Zony and computer geek now, but I worked on a ranch and ride when I'm lucky. I still have that starry expanse of sky to sit under, AZ is so beatiful, and look up to. The Southwest is so amazing. I do so much like Amarillo by Morning. It takes me to another place somehow.
This reminds me so much of my childhood. My dad used to listen to this song a lot. Good memories... :D
renragged ...so did my mother...I was maybe 4 or five when this was popular...as a kid I could stand anything she played...and now at the age of 38 I love her music...it was real music
Puts me in a squarebody truck when I was in my late teens, on a cold night, all the corn is down snow flurries, and its pitch black dark outside.........its one of my happy places
Same just cruising to a trail ride or too families to ride
I'm not much of a country fan, but I love this song.
lanna lane same. Just speaks to me some how
Five people you love w/o being "much of a country fan": George Strait, Keith Whitley, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Allison Krause. Also anything duoed or covered by Dolly Parton. Every truly musical soul loves "Jolene" it's made Miley Cyrus look like a philosopher.
Sweet home Alabama
Good cattlemen's song. No politics, no religion, just straight up country living and musical prose.
lanna lane I ain't got a dime, but what I got is mine. Wow, does that resonate! That song sure takes me to a better place and time than the one portrayed on the evening news. Amarillo is where I'll be
This song is actually sad to me... putting your love and devotion into something that will never love you back. In this case, it's the rodeo, but this type of sacrifice is seen in so many different pursuits in this world that people literally kill themselves for. The message of chasing after the wind is really what I get out of this song.
My love for country music brought me here. God bless
This song will remind me of my grandpa. He loved George Strait and lived till he was 102 years old. 💙❤️
I couldn’t explain how much I love this song...
One of the greatest songs ever written and sung by King George
Not written by George Strait.
God bless Texas
You’re not kidding. It took a set of orders to get me out of Texas and I went kicking and screaming. I can’t wait to get back home. I swear I’m gonna hit every Whataburger from Texarkana to home !!!
Amen
Loved that one@@dammitmandy1166
I have been there , where everything that I had was what I had on ! Thank Almighty GOD That's not me now ! I have my own home now and it's paid for ! Why because Almighty GOD Loves me ! That's the only reason I can think of !
Born and raised in San Antone, never has a singer captured the spirit of Texas like George.
I could listen to this song all day. I can never get over this catchy tune.
real music they don't make it like this anymore!
It's very honestly difficult to argue with your statement unless you listen to Modest Mouse, M83 or Lana Del Rey, you really have to hunt for authenticity now...and it used to be given to you on AM radio in your car like not a problem, David Lynch is here, this is the water and this the well...
serpentsally wait, there's fake music? I thought music is music. it's not good or bad, real nor fake, it just is.
Bill you are sooooo wrong, old music is where it is at, electronic things to change your voice if fake country music nowadays is fake
serpentsally msn. Xj I'm smusk xnjz bxnxv xvx
some of todays country is POP
I live in Amarillo, Texas!
Used to be a gangster travelling the West coast and one night I heard this song while passing thru Vegas.. I listened to my soul and thought about what a great cowboy I could have been. I decided to move back to the islands to make a change. We love you here in Samoa George Strait
Ever ending.....a voice that will live forever george ur the best
one of the most perfect songs ever
agreed
Of any genre, really. I’d rank this up with anything else.
born in 1998 , but still listening this year 2021 . such an hopeful sound and making me addicted to listen again and again.💕😌😇
When i first heard this song, i couldn't help noticing, what a nice voice George Strait has
Now THAT’S the way country music is supposed to sound. None of this blend of pop, rock, or (egads!) rap. Thanks George for reminding us.
This is the “National Anthem” of Country Music. God Bless Texas and George Strait from snowy New England.
2016 and this still hasn't become our state song yet. We need to get on top of it y'all.
Ashley Nolan no Gaveston should be Texas state song. Idc love them both. Remember the Alamo is another good choice
One of my tias favorite songs and it was played at her funeral😢 rest in paradise Tia love you
Not to much into country, but this is an Awesome song !!!! It's so good I listen to it often !!!!!!!!!!
I was heading that way with everything I had on and thank you to the best new hope man and his family...yall stay by my side the whole town of New Hope, Texas..Thank yall
very nice and beautiful song. thank you for sharing this. love it. i wish you great and nice day. take care
Terry Stafford should receive credit for actually writing and recording this song in 1973.
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I love this song I love his voice and the violin just sounds so awesome
Hi Linda 💐💐
That's a fiddle 😊