Tag: Garth Brooks

Seamus

Recently I was checking my blog stats and saw some of the search terms that drove people to my site. I thought this search term was rather curious:  At first I assumed that they had misheard the name of Billy Joel’s Shameless, which Garth Brooks covered on his album Ropin’ the Wind. But maybe they meant …

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Ireland, Texas

There is a lot of confusion about the Garth Brooks song Ireland. Most people mistakenly (and logically) believe that the song is about the nation of Ireland, but in fact it is about a small town in Texas. While Brooks is a native Oklahoman, he is a keen buff of Texas history. Ireland, Texas was …

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