West Texas Waltz(Album Version) - Joe Ely

作词：Butch Hancock

作曲：Butch Hancock

When you're ready for steady to go dancin' romancin'

Grab your sweetheart and jump in your car

Drive right on down to the bright side of town

You'll be glad you don't have to drive far

You'll be happy you don't have to go far

Park your pick-ups and Cadillacs and fords and Renaults

Get out and dance like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz

My pickup needs a tune-up I better get up and make up

My mind to get on it today

The tractor's been actin' up and the sewer lines are backin' up

But I'll be dancin' tonight anyway

I'll be dancin' tonight anyway

'Cause I count my blessings I don't count my faults

I like to dance like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz

Well I found a young cow-dog an' I told him Now now dog

You're a borderline collie I'm a borderline fool

But he had some bad habits he was scared of jack rabbits

I sent him off to canine school

I think they call it obedience school

But when he came back he couldn't tell a cow from a horse

But he could dance like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz

Grand mammy grand pappy if you wanna stay happy

Better lace up your best dancin' shoes

Come see us don't write us you can stop your arthritis

Just by dancin' away your blues

Now just by dancin' away your blues

So bind up your bunions with band-aids and gauze

And come on dance like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz

Oh yeah hey Mama

I met a fine lady banker and I'd sure like to thank her

For the credit she gave me made me shout

She changed my whole attitude and to show her my little gratitude

I decided I'd just ask her out

Yeah I thought I just might ask her out

I said Close up your windows and lock up your vaults

And lets go dance like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz

We spent the next to last dollar in the old ice cream parlor

On a milkshake and a malt and a pop

And then we heard us some sounds was a honky tonk lounge

Driving next to the ice cream shop

Next door to the ice cream shop

Now only two things are better than milkshakes and malts

And one is dancin' like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz

And the other is somethin' but really it's nothin'

To speak of it's somethin' to do

And if you've done it before you'll be doin' it some more

Just as soon as the dancin' is through

Right after the dancin' is through

And if anybody asks you why just tell 'em because

You been dancin' like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz