When you're for steady to go dancin', romancin' Grab your sweetheart and jump in car Drive right on to the bright side of town You'll be glad you have to drive far You'll be happy you have to go far
Park pick-ups and Cadillacs and fords and Renaults Get out and dance the dickens to the West Texas 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 tonight anyway I'll be tonight anyway
'Cause I my blessings, I don't count my faults I like to dance like the to the West Texas Waltz
Well I found a young cow-dog an' I him, "Now, now dog You're a borderline collie, I'm a fool But he had some bad habits, he was scared of rabbits I sent him off to school I think they call it school
But when he came back he couldn't a cow from a horse But he could dance like the dickens to the West Waltz
Grand mammy, grand pappy if you wanna stay Better lace up your dancin' shoes Come see us, don't write us, you can your arthritis Just by dancin' away your Now ,just by away your blues
So bind up your bunions with and gauze And on, dance like the dickens 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 made me She changed my whole and to show 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 to the West Texas Waltz
We spent the next to last dollar in the old ice cream On a milkshake and a and a pop And then we heard us some sounds, was a honky lounge Driving to the ice cream shop Next to the ice cream shop
Now only two are better than milkshakes and malts And one is like 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 dancin' is Right the dancin' is through
And if anybody you why, just tell 'em because You been dancin' like the to the West Texas Waltz