{"id":7259,"date":"2016-03-02T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/?p=7259"},"modified":"2016-02-29T15:29:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T21:29:59","slug":"nacog-where","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2016\/03\/02\/nacog-where\/","title":{"rendered":"Nacog-where?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was the middle of the second semester of my freshman year at UT, and more importantly, only my sixth month living in Texas since I was two years old. I\u2019d traded in my t-shirt and converse for a dress and boots on game days and started to pick up saying \u201cy\u2019all\u201d instead of \u201cyou guys\u201d, but I had no idea what I was getting myself into by going home with Ally Wild for the weekend. We had both somehow cheated the UT registration system and ended up with no Friday classes, and Ally had invited me to go back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.nacogdoches.tx.us\/\">Nacogdoches<\/a> with her to see where she grew up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/579148_10151874185234242_983078365_n.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7262\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7262 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/579148_10151874185234242_983078365_n-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"579148_10151874185234242_983078365_n\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/579148_10151874185234242_983078365_n-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/579148_10151874185234242_983078365_n.jpg 657w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a>We had only known each other for a few months, but my family knew her as my 5-foot-nothing, blonde hair teasing, pink lip gloss wearing friend who lived by the motto \u201cthe higher the hair, the closer to God\u201d. My mom said \u201cWell, you sure didn\u2019t waste any time finding a friend who\u2019s a <em>real<\/em> Texas girl!\u201d, and thought it\u2019d be fun for me to see a <em>real<\/em> small Texas town. We took off early Friday morning in her little white car with pink license plates that read \u201cA &lt;3 WILD\u201d, and a few hours later we pulled up the dirt road to her house in Nac. Ally\u2019s mom, Miss Tracey, was waiting for us at the door holding their yorkie, Lily.<\/p>\n<p>Later that night, Ally took me out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.banitacreekhall.com\/index.html\">Banita Creek Hall<\/a>\u00a0with her high school friends who now go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfasu.edu\/\">SFA<\/a>. Surrounded by thick accents and teased hair, I walked into a dance hall where the live band was playing their hearts out, singing The Everclear Song by Roger Creager. Before I knew it, every boy had grabbed a girl and started dancing, spinning and dipping her around the room. Ally took my hand and started dancing me around just like everyone else, and all I could do was try to keep up \u2013 this was nothing like the high school reunion parties I had gotten used to after going back to Oregon for winter break.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"The Everclear Song- Roger Creager (Lyrics)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/okP-sbPJVcY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, The Everclear Song was \u2018the song\u2019 of Ally and her friends\u2019 high school years, and they all convinced the band to play it over and over again throughout the night until I\u2019d learned the words myself. We danced and danced all night long, went back and did the same thing the following night, and by the end of night #2 I had (sort of) figured out how to dance and learned every word to their favorite song.<\/p>\n<p>Truthfully, I\u2019d never even heard of everclear before college. When Miss Tracey found this out, she decided to take it upon herself to convince both me and Ally that we\u2019d never want to <em>really<\/em> find out what Roger Creager meant when he sang \u201cUntil I wake up and I\u2019m face down in the hall, \/ Hey, I\u2019m completely naked, for a reason I can\u2019t recall.\u201d She poured some in a glass and offered us each a sip, but luckily for us, we both started coughing from the smell and turned away.<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, I\u2019ve still yet to experience a single thing more country than that dance hall filled with teased hair and cowboy boots. Just in case I ever forget, Ally and her mom still love to play that song to remind me just how terrible everclear is, and how much I missed out on by growing up anywhere that wasn\u2019t the great state of Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the middle of the second semester of my freshman year at UT, and more importantly, only my sixth month living in Texas since I was two years old. 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