West Texas Waltz (Album Version)-Joe Ely

[ti:West Texas Waltz (Album Version)] [ar:Joe Ely] [al:From Lubbock to Laredo] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]West Texas Waltz (Album Version) - Joe Ely [00:01.12]When you're ready for steady to go dancin' romancin' [00:06.78]Grab your sweetheart and jump in your car [00:11.20]Drive right on down to the bright side of town [00:15.23]You'll be glad you don't have to drive far [00:19.27]You'll be happy you don't have to go far [00:23.30]Park your pick-ups and Cadillacs and fords and Renaults [00:27.37]Get out and dance like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz [00:34.45]My pickup needs a tune-up I better get up and make up [00:38.87]My mind to get on it today [00:42.84]The tractor's been actin' up and the sewer lines are backin' up [00:47.21]But I'll be dancin' tonight anyway [00:50.58] [00:51.13]I'll be dancin' tonight anyway [00:55.23]'Cause I count my blessings I don't count my faults [00:59.18]I like to dance like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz [01:04.01] [01:06.54]Well I found a young cow-dog an' I told him "Now now dog [01:10.77]You're a borderline collie I'm a borderline fool [01:14.71]But he had some bad habits he was scared of jack rabbits [01:19.06]I sent him off to canine school [01:22.80]I think they call it obedience school [01:25.58] [01:27.01]But when he came back he couldn't tell a cow from a horse [01:31.08]But he could dance like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz [01:34.83] [01:38.30]Grand mammy grand pappy if you wanna stay happy [01:41.56] [01:42.45]Better lace up your best dancin' shoes [01:46.45]Come see us don't write us you can stop your arthritis [01:50.64]Just by dancin' away your blues [01:54.63]Now just by dancin' away your blues [01:58.73]So bind up your bunions with band-aids and gauze [02:02.05]And come on dance like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz [02:08.73]Oh yeah hey Mama [02:30.49]I met a fine lady banker and I'd sure like to thank her [02:34.44]For the credit she gave me made me shout [02:38.73]She changed my whole attitude and to show her my little gratitude [02:42.32]I decided I'd just ask her out [02:46.64]Yeah I thought I just might ask her out [02:50.32]I said Close up your windows and lock up your vaults [02:54.84]And lets go dance like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz [02:59.13] [03:01.84]We spent the next to last dollar in the old ice cream parlor [03:06.32]On a milkshake and a malt and a pop [03:10.00]And then we heard us some sounds was a honky tonk lounge [03:14.28]Driving next to the ice cream shop [03:18.40]Next door to the ice cream shop [03:22.33]Now only two things are better than milkshakes and malts [03:26.47]And one is dancin' like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz [03:31.37] [03:33.43]And the other is somethin' but really it's nothin' [03:37.88]To speak of it's somethin' to do [03:41.64]And if you've done it before you'll be doin' it some more [03:45.74]Just as soon as the dancin' is through [03:49.84]Right after the dancin' is through [03:53.86]And if anybody asks you why just tell 'em because [03:57.99]You been dancin' like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz