The Big Apple: “Texas born, Texas bred, when I die, I’ll be a Texan dead!”

Above, a plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at west 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan.

Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Oct. 17, 1931, Turf Play, p. 7.

Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce The Big Apple, a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.

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Entry from August 13, 2007

“Texas born, Texas bred, when I die, I’ll be a Texan dead!”

"Texas born, Texas bred, when I die, I’ll be a Texan dead!” has appeared on T-shirts since at least the 1990s. A similar saying has applied to the University of North Carolina’s Tar Heels since the early 1900s.

Texas Wit & Wisdom
by Wallace O. Chariton
Plano, TX: Woodware Publishing, Inc.
1990, 1992
Pg. 20:
Texas Born, Texas Bred,
when I die,
I’ll be a
Texan Dead!
From the Texas T-Shirt Hall of Fame.

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I’m Texas born, and Texas bred,
and when I die, I’ll be Texas dead!!

Google Books
History of the University of North Carolina
by Kemp Plummer Battle
Raleigh, NC: Edwards & Broughton Printing Company
1912
Pg. 762:
I’m a Tar Heel born,
I’m a Tar Heel bred,
And when I die,
I’m a Tar Heel dead.

Posted by Barry Popik
Texas (Lone Star State Dictionary) • (0) Comments • Monday, August 13, 2007 • Permalink