From: Rick (rickl1@ix.netcom.com)
 Subject: CRD:West Texas Waltz Emmylou Harris/Flaco Jimenez 
 Newsgroups: rec.music.artists.emmylou-harris, alt.guitar.tab
 Date: 2001-07-24 18:00:36 PST 


Emmylou Harris    West Texas Waltz written by by Butch Hancock
Flaco Jimenez 

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When you're ready for steady to go dancin', romancin'
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Grab your sweetheart and jump in your car

Drive right on down to the bright side of town
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You'll be glad you don't have to drive far
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You'll be happy you don't have to go far
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Park your pickups and Cadilacs, Fords and Renaults
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And dance like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz
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Grandmammy, grandpappy if you plan to stay happy
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You better lace up your best dancin shoes
          
Come see us, don't write us, you can stop your arthritis
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Just by dancin' away your blues
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Just by dancin' away your blues
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So bind up your bunions with band-aids and gauze
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Come dance like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz

SOLO
  
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I met a fine  banker and I'd sure like to thank him
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For the credit he gave me made me shout
                      
He changed my whole attitude and  to show him ny gratitude
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I decided I'd just ask him out.
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Yes I thought I just might ask her out
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I said close up your windows, honey, lock up your vaults
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And dance like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz
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We spent the next to the last dollar in the old ice cream parlor
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On a milkshake and a malt and a pop

Then we heard us some sounds, there was a honky tonk lounge
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Right Next  to the ice cream shop
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Next door to the ice cream shop
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Now only two things are better than milkshakes and malts
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And one is dancin' like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz
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And the other is somethin', but really it's nothin'
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To speak of it's somethin' to do

If you've done it before, you'll be doin' it some more
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Just as soon as the dancin' is through
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Right after the dancin' is through
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And if anybody asks you why, just tell it's because
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You been dancin' like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz.



From Flaco Jimenez "Partners"
Warner Brothers Records 1992