Flaco Jimenez - West Texas Waltz lyrics

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<b>West Texas Waltz</b> by <i>Flaco Jimenez</i><br />

When you're ready for steady go dancin', romancin'

Grab your sweetheart and jump in your car

Drive right on down to the bright side of town

You'll be glad you don't have to drive far

You'll be happy you don't have to go far

Park your pick-ups

And Cadillacs and Fords and Renaults

Then dance like the dickens

To the West Texas Waltz

Grandmammy and grandpappy, if you wanna stay happy

Better lace up your best dancin' shoes

Come see us, don't write us, you can stop your arthritis

Just by dancin' away your blues

Just by dancin' away your blues

So bind up your bunions

And band-aids and gauzes

And come dance like the dickens

To the West Texas Waltz

I met a fine banker and I'd sure like to thank him

All the credit he gave me made me shout

He changed my whole attitude and to show him my gratitude

I decided I'd just ask him out

Yes, I thought I just might ask him out

I said, "Close up your windows

And lock up your vaults

Lets go dance like the dickens

To the West Texas Waltz"

We spent the next two last dollar in the old ice cream parlor

On a milkshake and a malt and a pop

Then we heard us some sounds, it was a honky tonk lounge

'Bout next to the ice cream shop

Next door to the ice cream shop

Now only two things are better

Than milkshakes and malts

One is dancin' like the dickens

To the West Texas Waltz

And the other is somethin' but really it's nothin'

To speak of, it's somethin' to do

And if you've done it before you'll be doin' it some more

Just as soon as the dancin' is through

Right after the dancin' is through

If anybody asks you why

Just tell 'em it's because

You been dancin' like the dickens

To the West Texas Waltz