When you're ready for steady to go dancin', Grab sweetheart and jump in your car right on down to the bright side of town You'll be glad you have to drive far You'll be happy you don't to go far
your pick-ups and Cadillacs and fords and Renaults Get out and dance like the dickens to the West Waltz
My pickup needs a tune-up, I better get up and up My to get on it today The tractor's been actin' up and the lines are backin' up But I'll be dancin' tonight I'll be dancin' anyway
'Cause I count my blessings, I don't count my I like to dance like the dickens to the Texas Waltz
Well I found a cow-dog an' I told him, "Now, now dog You're a borderline collie, I'm a borderline But he had bad habits, he was scared of jack rabbits I him off to canine school I think they call it school
But when he came he couldn't tell a cow from a horse But he dance like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz
mammy, grand pappy if you wanna stay happy Better lace up your best shoes Come see us, don't write us, you can your arthritis Just by dancin' your blues Now ,just by away your blues
So bind up bunions with band-aids and gauze And come on, dance like the to the West Texas Waltz Oh yeah, hey
I met a fine lady banker and I'd like to thank her For the credit she gave me me shout She changed my attitude and to show her my little gratitude I I'd just ask her out Yeah, I thought I might ask her out
I said, Close up your windows and up your vaults And lets go dance like the dickens to the Texas Waltz
We spent the next to last in the old ice cream parlor On a and a malt and a pop And then we us some sounds, was a honky tonk lounge Driving next to the ice cream Next door to the ice shop
Now only two things are better than milkshakes and And one is dancin' like the to the West Texas Waltz
And the other is somethin' but it's nothin' To speak of, somethin' to do And if you've done it before you'll be doin' it some Just as soon as the is through Right the dancin' is through
And if anybody you why, just tell 'em because You dancin' like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz