When ready for steady to go dancin', romancin' Grab your sweetheart and jump in car Drive right on down to the bright side of You'll be glad you have to drive far You'll be you don't have to go far
Park pick-ups and Cadillacs and fords and Renaults Get out and dance like the dickens to the West Texas
My needs a tune-up, I better get up and make up My mind to get on it The tractor's been actin' up and the sewer are backin' up But I'll be dancin' tonight I'll be tonight anyway
'Cause I count my blessings, I don't count my I like to dance like the dickens to the West Waltz
Well I found a cow-dog an' I told him, "Now, now dog You're a collie, I'm a borderline fool But he had bad habits, he was scared of jack rabbits I sent him off to school I think they it obedience school
But when he came back he couldn't tell a cow a horse But he dance like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz
Grand mammy, grand pappy if you wanna happy Better up your best dancin' shoes see us, don't write us, you can stop your arthritis Just by away your blues Now ,just by dancin' your blues
So bind up your bunions with band-aids and And come on, dance like the 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 show her my gratitude I decided I'd ask her out Yeah, I thought I just ask her out
I said, Close up your windows and lock up vaults And lets go dance like the dickens to the Texas Waltz
We spent the to last dollar in the old ice cream parlor On a milkshake and a and a pop And then we heard us sounds, was a honky tonk lounge Driving to the ice cream shop Next to the ice cream shop
Now two things are better than milkshakes and malts And one is dancin' like the dickens to the West Texas
And the other is but really it's nothin' To speak of, somethin' to do And if you've done it before be doin' it some more Just as soon as the dancin' is Right after the is through
And if asks you why, just tell 'em because You been dancin' like the dickens to the West Waltz