When ready for steady to go dancin', romancin' Grab your 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 you don't have to go far
Park your pick-ups and Cadillacs and and Renaults Get out and like 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 actin' up and the sewer lines are backin' up But I'll be dancin' anyway I'll be dancin' anyway
'Cause I my blessings, I don't count my faults I like to dance the dickens to the West Texas Waltz
I found a young cow-dog an' I told him, "Now, now dog You're a borderline collie, I'm a fool But he had bad habits, he was scared of jack rabbits I sent him off to school I think call it obedience school
But he came back he couldn't tell a cow from a horse But he could dance like the dickens to the West Waltz
Grand mammy, grand pappy if you wanna happy Better lace up your best dancin' 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 your bunions with band-aids and And come on, dance like the dickens to the West Texas Oh yeah, hey
I met a fine lady banker and I'd sure like to her For the credit she gave me me shout She changed my whole attitude and to show her my little 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 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 sounds, was a honky tonk lounge Driving next to the ice shop Next door to the ice shop
Now only two things are better than milkshakes and And one is dancin' like the dickens to the West Texas
And the other is somethin' but really nothin' To speak of, it's to do And if done it before you'll be doin' it some more as soon as the dancin' is through Right the dancin' is through
And if anybody asks you why, just tell 'em You dancin' like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz