West Texas Waltz Song Lyrics and Chords by Emmylou Harris
West Texas Waltz
Recorded by Emmylou Harris with Flaco Jimanez
Written by Butch Hancock
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When you're
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ready for steady to go dancin' romancin'
Grab your sweetheart and jump in your
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car
Drive right on down to the bright side of town
And be glad you don't have to drive
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far
You'll be
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happy you don't have to go
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far
Park your
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pickups and Cadillacs Fords and Renaults
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dance like the dickens
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to the West Texas
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Grand
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mammy grandpappy if you wanna stay happy
You better lace up your best dancin€
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shoes
Come see us don't write us you can stop your arthritis
Just by dancin' away your
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blues
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Just by dancin' away your
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blues
So
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bind up your bunions with band-aids and gauze
Come
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dance like the dickens
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to the West Texas
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met a fine banker and I'd sure like to thank him
For the credit he gave me made me
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shout
He changed my whole attitude and to show my gratitude
I decided I'd just ask him
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out
Yes I
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thought I just might ask him
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out
I said
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close up your windows and lock up your vaults
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dance like the dickens
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to the West Texas
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We
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spent the next to the last dollar in the old ice cream parlor
On a milkshake a malt and a
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Then we heard us some sounds there was a honky tonk lounge
Right next to the ice cream
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shop
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Next door to the ice cream
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shop
Now
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only two things are better than milkshakes and malts
And one is
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dancin' like the dickens
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to the West Texas
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And the
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other is somethin' but really it's nothin'
To speak of it's somethin' to
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And if you've done it before you'll be doin' it some more
Just as soon as the dancin' is
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through
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Right after the dancin' is
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through
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anybody asks you why just tell it's because
You been
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dancin' like the dickens
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to the West Texas
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Waltz
FAQ
Who sang the the song West Texas Waltz?
- The song West Texas Waltz was sang by Emmylou Harris.
Who is Emmylou Harris?
- Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. She has released dozens of albums and singles over the course of her career and has won 14 Grammys, the Polar Music Prize, and numerous other honors, including induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 2018, she was presented the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.Harris' work and recordings include work as a solo artist, a bandleader, an interpreter of other composers' works, a singer-songwriter, and a backing vocalist and duet partner. She has worked with numerous artists.
