Well, I met a girl from Texas 'bout a ago known 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, give you the clothes on my back You can have everything that I've got in my But if you ever try to leave they'll take you out in 'Cause me and my razor see to that"
the way the girls are from Texas That's the way the girls are from That's the way the girls are from the way the girls are from Texas
I thought about my situation, decided not to For my own self preservation, I we should marry the preacher started reading 'bout 'till death do us part I told him, "Skip it, she had that right from the start"
She said, "Baby, give you the clothes on my back You can have everything that got in my shack But if you ever try to they'll take you out in sack 'Cause me and my razor 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 or leave 'em alone) That's the way the girls are Texas That's the way the girls are from
Well we settled down, got me a little old job, '65 lane Ford Every Friday night I stop in and cash my pay check Down at the grocery They had a girl worked in there, must have been about seventeen She was the cutest thing I had seen
It's the same old and I'm afraid it wasn't too very long Before we had fallen deeply in love and I knew it was I said baby, we got to stop this thing right Or my is gonna cut my throat from ear to ear, that's right
In tearful supplication, she up in my face I could feel her heart was as these sad words she did say "You have told me you was married, baby" She pulled out a forty-five and let me it Right smack the eyes
That's the way the girls are Texas That's the way the girls are 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 are from Texas) "Ah, that's just the way the girls are here in Texas dismissed!"
That's the way the girls are Texas (Houston to San Antone) That's the way the girls are from (Got to love 'em or leave 'em alone, boy) That's the way the are from Texas the way the girls are from Texas