When you're ready for to go dancin', romancin' your sweetheart and jump in your car Drive right on down to the bright of town be glad you don't have to drive far You'll be happy you don't to go far
Park your and Cadillacs and fords and Renaults Get out and dance like the dickens to the West Waltz
My needs a tune-up, I better get up and make up My to get on it today The tractor's actin' up and the sewer lines are backin' up But I'll be tonight anyway I'll be dancin' tonight
'Cause I count my blessings, I count my faults I like to dance like the dickens to the West Waltz
Well I found a young 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 sent him off to school I they call it obedience school
But when he came back he tell a cow from a horse But he could dance like the to the West Texas Waltz
mammy, grand pappy if you wanna stay happy Better lace up your best dancin' Come see us, don't write us, you can stop your Just by dancin' away blues Now ,just by dancin' your blues
So bind up your bunions band-aids and gauze And come on, like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz Oh yeah, hey
I met a fine lady banker and I'd sure to thank her For the credit she me made me shout She changed my whole attitude and to her my little gratitude I I'd just ask her out Yeah, I I just might ask her out
I said, Close up your windows and lock up vaults And lets go dance like the dickens to the West Texas
We spent the next to last dollar in the old ice cream On a and a malt and a pop And then we heard us sounds, was a honky tonk lounge Driving next to the ice shop door to the ice cream shop
Now only two things are better than and malts And one is dancin' the dickens to the West Texas Waltz
And the other is somethin' but really nothin' To speak of, it's to do And if you've done it before you'll be doin' it more Just as soon as the is through Right the dancin' is through
And if anybody asks you why, just tell 'em You been dancin' like the dickens to the Texas Waltz