There Are So Many Songs in Me That Won’t be Sung

ROY CLARK

The world recently lost another one of its sources of pleasant distractions from the drudgeries of everyday life. Roy Linwood Clark passed away November 15, 2018 due to health reasons at the age of 85. He just plum wore out, SIX decades of making folks laugh with the corniest jokes and drop their jaws in amazement of his command of any stringed instrument. Most folks only remember him from being a clown with a banjo, guitar (electric or acoustic), fiddle, or mandolin while he was a co-star with Buck Owens on the TV show Hee Haw. That would be understandable since it is broadcast somewhere in the English-speaking world every day despite the filming of new episodes stopped in 1992. from the influence of other cultures and keep their Old Country traditions alive longer. These new Texians were more agriculturally oriented than most of their northern counterparts.

The music, along with the immigrants poured into Texas. In the 1840s, German music was heard in every little village in the Hill Country.

By the early 1900s, you could probably sit on a hilltop anywhere in Central Texas and hear music.

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