New from the shameless Texploitation department: Lone Star Beer is running a contest to select a "National Anthem of Texas" (unofficial, of course).

50 songs are up for the vote (though I only count 49 in the list below). You can listen to samples from each and then pick your favorite. Each voter gets a free download from Lone Star Tunes, plus a chance to win one of more than 250 prize packages.

Here are the nominees:

• Boogie Back to Texas - Asleep at the Wheel
• Miles and Miles of Texas - Asleep at the Wheel
• Colors Are All the Same - Bill Pekar
• San Antonio Rose - Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
• I've Been Everywhere (In Texas) - Brian Burns
• Llano Estacado - Cooder Graw
• Texas Time Travelin' - Cory Morrow
• That's What I Like About Texas - Dale Watson
• Way Down Texas Way - Dale Watson
• Lone Star Blues - Delbert McClinton
• Rolling Stone from Texas - Don Walser
• Beautiful Texas Sunshine - Doug Sahm
• Texas Me - Doug Sahm
• Yellow Rose of Texas - Ernest Tubb
• Waltz Across Texas - Ernest Tubb
• Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio - Flaco Jimenez
• London Homesick Blues - Gary P. Nunn
• What I Like About Texas - Gary P. Nunn
• I'm a Texan - Gary Stewart
• Deep In the Heart of Texas - Gene Autry
• Texas Cookin' - Guy Clark
• Down In Texas - Jerry Jeff Walker
• Dallas - Joe Ely
• Texas to You - Johnny Cooper
• 100% Texan - Kevin Fowler
• West Texas Heaven - Kimmie Rhodes
• God Blessed Texas - Little Texas
• That's Right (You're Not from Texas) - Lyle Lovett
• I-35 - Max Stalling
• Beautiful Texas - Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies
• Lone Star State of Mind - Nanci Griffith
• Songs About Texas - Pat Green
• Texas on My Mind - Pat Green
• Texas in 1880 - Radney Foster
• Screw You, We're from Texas - Ray Wylie Hubbard
• Amarillo Highway - Robert Earl Keen
• Texas Morning - Rusty Wier
• Come on Down to Texas - Steve Fromholz
• Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan
• Texas Moon - Stoney LaRue
• Texas (When I Die) - Tanya Tucker
• Gone to Texas - Terry Allen
• Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas) - The Outlaws
• Good Texan - Vaughan Brothers
• Luckenbach, Texas - Waylon Jennings
• Texas in My Soul - Willie Nelson
• Texas on a Saturday Night - Willie Nelson
• Northeast Texas Women - Willis Alan Ramsey
• La Grange - ZZ Top

The contest runs through September 30. The winning song will get bragging rights only. We already have an official state song: "Texas, Our Texas."