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Article: Texan writes sad song for oil patch aid effort
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 15, 1986
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DALLAS When the going gets tough - when the things she cherishes
with all the fierceness she can muster, such as America and what she
calls the oil patch, are mired in trouble - Karen Fowler writes
songs.
During the Iranian crisis in the late 1970s, she wrote a punchy
little ditty about the Ayatollah Khomeini. More recently, she's
turned her pen to Moammar Gadhafi. Now, she's written "A Letter to
Ronnie," a song set to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas," in
which she tells of the oil industry's problems from the point of view
of oil patch residents.
Consider the first verse: "I'm a-writin' you this letter, cause
I have the extra time./ It's because of you I'm standing in the ...