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section isn't written in a very encyclopedic fashion, in my opinion. I don't have access to the book claimed as a source, but I would like more information on the source material before I actually accept this alleged history as "deserving of serious consideration as the primary inspiration for the song." I'm not going to take it out yet, but I feel that it should be removed unless someone with access to a source can put in more information.
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Longhorns "official version," I think it may be time to revisit the roots of Eyes of Texas. Given the nature of song, especially folk songs with roots in the 1960s, it is quite likely that it had military origins. And the story described in Hood's Texas Brigade: Lee's
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Hey, sorry about my delay in responding. By rewrite, we don't mean to change a few words, we mean to take the information and write the article in one's own words. A good way to do this might be to read the original work, do something else for half an hour, and then try to write the article from
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Grenadier Guard, a 1970 book by Col. Harold B. Simpson, seems highly plausible. Among
Simpson's sources was a Nov. 5, 1964 article in the Waco Herald-Tribune, "The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You." The story behind the song can be found on page 369 of Simpson's book.
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I'm rather confused about how changing a few words will suddenly make this a "legal" entry. I am a member of the
Longhorn Band, the group that owns this copyright to history. I edited the /temp page to link to the LHB website
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UTEP publishes that the Eyes of Texas is their alma mater too. I have spoken with a docent at the UTEP Heritage House and he had provided me scans of their athletic program. The scans can be found online.
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