When you're for steady to go dancin', romancin' your sweetheart and jump in your car Drive on down to the bright side of town You'll be you don't have to drive far You'll be happy you have to go far
Park your pick-ups and and fords and Renaults Get out and dance the dickens to the West Texas Waltz
My pickup a tune-up, I better get up and make up My to get on it today The been 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 don't count my I like to dance like the dickens to the West Texas
Well I found a young an' I told him, "Now, now dog You're a borderline collie, I'm a borderline But he had some bad habits, he was scared of rabbits I him off to canine school I think they call it obedience
But when he came back he couldn't tell a cow from a But he could dance like the dickens to the West Waltz
Grand mammy, grand pappy if you stay happy Better lace up best dancin' shoes 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 bunions with band-aids and gauze And on, dance like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz Oh yeah, hey
I met a fine banker and I'd sure like to thank her For the credit she gave me me shout She my whole attitude and to show her my little gratitude I decided I'd ask her out Yeah, I thought I might ask her out
I said, up your windows and lock up your vaults And lets go dance like the to the West Texas Waltz
We spent the to last dollar in the old ice cream parlor On a and a malt and a pop And we heard us some sounds, was a honky tonk lounge next to the ice cream shop Next to the ice cream shop
Now only two things are better than and malts And one is dancin' like the to the West Texas Waltz
And the other is somethin' but it's nothin' To speak of, it's to do And if you've done it before be doin' it some more Just as soon as the is through Right after the dancin' is
And if anybody you why, just tell 'em because You been dancin' the dickens to the West Texas Waltz