Deep in the Heart of Texas

"Deep in the Heart of Texas"
Song by Perry Como with Ted Weems and His Orchestra
Released	1942
A-side	Ollie Ollie Out's in Free
Recorded	December 1941, Los Angeles
Genre	Country & Western
Label	Decca Records
Writer(s)	June Hershey
Composer(s)	Don Swander
Language	English
ISWC	T-070.881.724-6

"Deep in the Heart of Texas" is an American popular song about the U.S. state of Texas.

The 1941 song features lyrics by June Hershey and music by Don Swander. The song was recorded by Perry Como with Ted Weems and His Orchestra on December 9 of that year for Decca Records in Los Angeles, California. It was a single release (4138 A) on the flip side of the song "Ollie Ollie Out's In Free." "Deep in the Heart of Texas" spent five weeks at the top of Your Hit Parade in 1942. The song spent twelve weeks in total on the 1942 Hit Parade.

The song's title was borrowed for the name of a 1942 Western film of the same name starring Johnny Mack Brown as a man instrumental in restoring Texas to the United States following the American Civil War. It featured Tex Ritter and the Jimmy Wakely Trio singing the title song. Gene Autry sang the song in Heart of the Rio Grande (1942) and his version may be the most well known.

The first recording was by Alvino Rey on November 21 for Bluebird. Bing Crosby with Woody Herman's band recorded a version that reached #3 on the Billboard charts that year. Other artists to record the song include The Merry Macs,Dale Evans and Roy Rogers, Ray Charles, Hank Thompson, Bob Grant, George Strait, and Nickel Creek. The Kidsongs Kids' ancestors sing this song on Sing Out, America!.