Well, I met a girl from 'bout a year ago Hadn't her for too long when I had to let her go You see, she had a razor, was ten or so And every night you'd her knocking at my door
She said, "Baby, I'll you the clothes on my back You can have everything that got in my shack But if you ever try to leave take you out in sack 'Cause me and my razor see to that"
That's the way the are from Texas That's the way the are from Texas That's the way the are from Texas That's the way the girls are Texas
I thought about my situation, not to tarry For my own self preservation, I decided we should When the started reading 'bout 'till death do us part I told him, "Skip it, she had that understanding from the start"
She said, "Baby, I'll you the clothes on my back You can have everything I've got in my shack But if you ever try to leave they'll you out in sack 'Cause me and my will see to that"
That's the way the girls are from (Houston to San Antone) That's the way the are from Texas (Got to love 'em right or 'em alone) That's the way the girls are Texas That's the way the girls are Texas
Well we down, got me a little old job, '65 Fair lane Ford Every Friday I would stop in and cash my pay check Down at the store had a little girl worked in there, must have been about seventeen She was the cutest I had ever seen
It's the same old and I'm afraid it wasn't too very long Before we had deeply in love and I knew it was wrong I said baby, we got to stop this right here Or my woman is gonna cut my throat from ear to ear, that's
In supplication, she looked up in my face I could feel her was breaking as these sad words she did say "You should told me you was married, baby" She pulled out a and let me have it Right smack between the
That's the way the girls are from the way the girls are from Texas
She was guilty, I was (That's the way the are from Texas) Now, what'd you think that the old judge (That's the way the girls are Texas) "Ah, that's just the way the girls are down here in dismissed!"
That's the way the are from Texas (Houston to San Antone) That's the way the are from Texas (Got to love 'em right or 'em alone, boy) That's the way the are from Texas the way the girls are from Texas