West Texas Waltz (with Flaco Jimenez) - Emmylou Harris, Flaco Jimenez

When you’re ready for 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 pickups and Cadilacs, Fords and Renaults

And dance like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz

Grandmammy, grandpappy if you plan to stay happy

You 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

Just by dancin' away your blues

So bind up your bunions with band-aids and gauze

Come dance like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz

I met a fine banker and I’d sure like to thank him

For the credit he gave me made me shout

He changed my whole attitude and to show him ny gratitude

I decided I’d just ask him out

Yes I thought I just might ask her out

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

And dance like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz

We spent the next to the last dollar in the old ice cream parlor

On a milkshake and a malt and a pop

Then we heard us some sounds, there was a honky tonk lounge

Right Next 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 it’s because

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