Question: What state was the writer of the song "the carpenter" born?
Context: David Joseph Carpenter (born May 6, 1930), a.k.a. the Trailside Killer, is an American serial killer known for stalking and murdering his victims in State Parks in California.  Carpenter killed several people on hiking trails near San Francisco, California.  Carpenter killed at least 10 people, with one attempted victim, Steven Haertle, surviving.  Carpenter used a .38 caliber handgun in all but one of the killings, with a .44 caliber handgun being used in the killing of Edna Kane on Mount Tamalpais. "The Carpenter" is a song written by Guy Clark, and recorded by American country music artist John Conlee.  It was released in September 1986 as the third single from his album "Harmony".  The song reached #6 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles chart in January 1987 and #1 on the "RPM" Country Tracks chart in Canada. Charles K. Carpenter (born in 1872 in Illinois, died in 1948) was a prominent minister in northern Illinois and a charter member of the Illinois State Academy of Science.  During his years of service as a minister, his avocation was recording observations of nature and preparing study skins and life mounts of animals of the region.  After his retirement from the church in 1940, he organized his collections and observations into the Northern Illinois Museum of Natural History, which he maintained at his home in Baileyville, Ogle County, Illinois.  After his death in 1948, most of his life mounts were given to a high school, where they remained until 1983 when they were donated to the Illinois State Museum.  Many of his bird study skins, egg sets, and photographs were given to Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa; in 1985-1986 these were transferred to the Illinois State Museum.  Among his specimens was a life mount of a (now extinct) passenger pigeon, "Ectopistes migratorius" (Linnaeus, 1766), collected by his father, Edwin A. Carpenter (born in 1846 in Pennsylvania, died in 1919 in Illinois).  This specimen is one of only 19 complete and 7 partial skeleton specimens of passenger pigeons known to exist in museum collections. "Never Had It So Good" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Mary Chapin Carpenter.  It was released in September 1989 as the second single from the album "State of the Heart".  The song reached #8 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.  It was written by Carpenter and John Jennings. Guy Charles Clark (November 6, 1941 – May 17, 2016) was an American Texas country and folk singer, musician, songwriter, recording artist, and performer.  He released more than twenty albums, and his songs have been recorded by other artists including Jerry Jeff Walker, Jimmy Buffett, Lyle Lovett, Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner, and Rodney Crowell.  He won the 2014 Grammy Award for Best Folk Album: "My Favorite Picture of You". Ronald Allen Carpenter, Jr. (born January 20, 1970) is a former professional American football player who played defensive back for five seasons for the Cincinnati Bengals, Minnesota Vikings.  New York Jets, and St. Louis Rams.  He played college football at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he was a three-time first-team All-Mid-American Conference player and served as captain his senior season.  He was voted to the Miami University All-Millennium team by "The Cincinnati Enquirer" in 2000.  He was also inducted into the Miami University Athletic Hall of Fame on October 14, 2016.  Carpenter was also an All-World League player for the Amsterdam Admirals and spent seasons with the New York CityHawks of the Arena Football League (AFL), the Los Angeles Xtreme of the XFL, and the Nashville Kats, Georgia Force, and Detroit Fury of the AFL.  He owns a Super Bowl ring from the 1999 Rams and an XFL Championship ring from the 2001 Xtreme.  Following his professional career, Carpenter took up coaching and scouting, having scouted for Pro Football Scouts Inc., the Tennessee Titans as a scouting intern, and coached for Princeton High School in Ohio, the Georgia Force, Central State University, Indiana University, Miami University and the University of Central Arkansas. Zoë Lister (born 10 March 1982) is an English actress from Stoke Prior, Worcestershire, best known for playing Zoe Carpenter in British soap Hollyoaks.  She grew up in Callow Hill near Redditch.  where she has lived for most of her life.  She trained at the Starlight School of Dance in Winyates, Redditch.  Previous to landing her role in "Hollyoaks", she worked as a dancer and singer.  The part of Zoe Carpenter was her debut professional role.  She currently works as a writer on Hollyoaks. Alan John Carpenter (born 4 January 1957) is a former Australian politician who served as the 28th Premier of Western Australia, from 2006 to 2008.  From Albany, Carpenter graduated from the University of Western Australia, and worked as a journalist before entering politics.  A member of the Labor Party, he was first elected to the Legislative Assembly at the 1996 state election, representing the seat of Willagee.  In the Gallop ministry, which took office following the 2001 election, Carpenter was Minister for Education (later Education and Training), as well as holding several other portfolios.  He replaced Geoff Gallop as premier in January 2006, following Gallop's resignation, but Labor lost office following a hung parliament at the 2008 election, with Colin Barnett becoming premier as the leader of a minority Liberal Party government.  Carpenter resigned from parliament in 2009, and currently holds a senior management position with Wesfarmers Limited. Mary Chapin Carpenter (born February 21, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter.  Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C. clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records, who marketed her as a country singer.  Carpenter's first album, 1987's "Hometown Girl", did not produce any singles, although 1989's "State of the Heart" and 1990's "Shooting Straight in the Dark" each produced four Top 20 hits on the "Billboard" country singles charts. Matthew Hale Carpenter (born Decatur Merritt Hammond Carpenter; December 22, 1824 – February 24, 1881) was an American attorney and U.S. Senator representing the state of Wisconsin.  He served in the Senate from 1869 to 1875 and again from 1879 to 1881.  Recognized as an authority on constitutional law, he made some of the most important legal arguments of 19th-century America.  Carpenter presented cases before the U. S. Supreme Court involving such matters as states' rights and regulation of corporations.
Answer: American Texas