West Texas Waltz - Joe Ely

When you’re ready or steady

To 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, Fords and Renaults

Get out and dance like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz

My pickup needs a tune-up

I better get up and make up

My mind to get on it today

The tractor’s been actin' up

And the sewer lines are backin' up

But I’ll be dancin' tonight anyway

I’ll go dancin' tonight anyway

'Cause I count my blessings, I don’t count my faults

I like to dance like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz

Well I found a young cow-dog

An' I told him: «Now, now doh

«You're a borderline Collie, I’m a borderline fool.»

But he had some bad habits

He was scared of jack rabbits

I sent him off to canine school

I think they call it obedience school

When he came back, he couldn’t tell a cow from a horse

But he could dance like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz

Grandmammy, 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

Now just by dancin' away your blues

So bind up your bunnions with band-aids and gauze

And come dance like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz

Oh yeah

Intrumental Break

I met a fine lady banker

And I’d sure like to thank her

For the credit she gave me made me shout

She changed my whole attitude

And to show her a little gratitude

I decided I’d just ask her out

Yeah, I thought I just might ask her out

I said close up your windows, and lock up your vaults

And lets go dance like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz

We spent the next to last dollar

At the old ice cream parlor

On a milkshake and a malt and a pop

And then we heard us some sounds

Was a honky tonk lounge

Next door to the ice cream shop

Next door to the ice cream shop

Now only two things are better than milkshakes and malts

And 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

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

And if anybody asks you why, just tell 'em because

You been dancin' like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz