Harris Emmylou - West Texas Waltz guitar tab

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