Morris Mac Davis was born in Lubbock on January 21, 1942. “It’s what I am and who I am,” he said, “and besides, it has a good rhyme scheme and melody.”
Oglesby, because it felt so true to his life. The song was his favorite, Davis once told author and artist Christopher J. “And when I die you can bury me in Lubbock, Texas, in my jeans.” “Now happiness was Lubbock, Texas, growing nearer and nearer,” he sings. Life in Hollywood has left him broke and lonely, and he’s decided to go home. But listen all the way to the end, and you’ll hear the narrator change his mind.
Of the hundreds of songs he wrote over his sixty-year career, his favorite was “Texas in My Rearview Mirror.” Released in 1980, the song captures a feeling that many young Texans can still relate to-a restless desire to leave behind a sleepy hometown and move to a big coastal city: “I thought happiness was Lubbock, Texas, in my rearview mirror / My mama kept calling me home, but I just did not want to hear her.” These lyrics have led the song to be frequently misinterpreted as a putdown of Lubbock. The country singer-songwriter Mac Davis, who died in Nashville this week at age 78, spent most of his life in Tennessee and Los Angeles-but he always loved his hometown of Lubbock.
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