Chords for The West Texas Waltz--Butch Hancock

Okay, now choose your partners carefully.
[D] _ When _ [A] _ _ [D] you're ready for steady,
Go a-dancin' and a-prancin',
Grab your sweetheart and hop [A] in your car.
Just drive right on down to the bright side of town,
You'll be happy, you don't [D] have to drive far.
_ You'll be [A] glad you don't have to [D] drive far.
[G] Park your pickups and your Cadillacs and your Fords and [D] Renaults,
Get out and dance like a [A] Dickens to the West [D] Texas [F#m] Waltz.
[G] _ _ _ [D] Well, my pickup needs a tune-up,
I better get up and make up my mind to get busy [A]
today.
And my sewer line is backin' up,
And my tractor's been actin' up,
But I'll be dancin' tonight [D] anyway.
I'll go dancin' [F#m] the whole [D] night away.
Oh yeah, [G] cause I count my blessings,
I don't count my faults.
[D] I like to dance like a Dickens to the [A] West [D] Texas [F#m] Waltz.
[B] _ [Em] _ _ [D]
Grandmammy and grandpappy,
If you plan to stay happy,
You better lace up in your [A] best dancin' shoes.
_ Come see us, don't write us,
You can stop your arthritis,
Just by dancin' [E] away [D] your blues. _
Just by [A] dancin' away [D] all your blues.
[G] So bind up your bunions with your band-aids and [D] gauze,
Get out and dance like a [A] Dickens to the West [D] Texas [F#m] Waltz.
[G] _ _ [C#]
[D] Now I got me a brown cow dog,
And I told him,
How now dog, you're a borderline [A] collie,
I'm a borderline fool.
But he had some bad habits,
He was [D] scared of jackrabbits,
[A] So I sent him [C#m] off to [D] canine school.
I think they called [A] it [D] Texas Tech.
[G] When he got back, he couldn't tell a cow from a [D] horse,
But he could dance like a [A] Dickens to the West [D] Texas Waltz.
Oh yeah, [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] you're gonna dance like a Dickens to the [A] West Texas [D] _ Waltz.
[G] _ _
[A#m] _ [D] _ _ [F#m] _ [G] _ _ [D] I met a fine lady banker,
And I'd sure like to thank her,
Cause the credit she gave me [A] made me shout.
[Em] _ _ [B] _ _ _
Hey, that was not bad. _ _ _
That's actually about the way they did it in Helsinki, Finland the first time.
Pretty good, pretty good.
Which is better than lots of places, it really is.
But nobody gets away with doing it just once.
You had the volume really nice.
But let's hear a little more enthusiasm and _ sustain.
[Gm] I [D] said, cause the credit she gave me [A] made me shout. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
She changed my whole attitude,
And to show her a little gratitude I decided,
[B] I'd just [D] ask her out.
I said, baby would [A] you [D] like to step out?
I [G] had to tell her to tell her tellers to lock up their vaults,
[D] Let's dance like a [A] Dickens to the [D] West Texas _
[C#] Waltz.
[G] _ [D] We spent my next to last dollar,
In that old ice cream parlor,
On a milkshake and a [A] malt and a pop.
Then we heard some sounds,
There was a honky tonk lounge,
Next door to the [E] ice [D] cream shop.
Right [A] next to that [D] ice cream shop.
[G] Now only two things are better,
Than your milkshakes and your [D] malts,
And ones a-dancing like a [A] Dickens to the West [D] Texas [A] Waltz.
[D] And the other is something,
But really it's nothing to speak of,
It's something [A] to do.
And if you've done it before,
You'll be doing it some more,
Right after the [D] dancing is through.
_ Just as [A] soon as the [D] dancing is through.
[G] Anybody ask you why,
Just tell them because,
You've [D] been dancing like a Dickens [A] to the West [D] Texas [A] Waltz.
[D] _ _ _ [G] Little Ida Luda plain views,
Ida Luda little Macadoos,
[D] Ida Luda little level,
Little [A] feel the little [D] Ida Luda happy to.
_ [G] Ida Luda love of Cadillacs,
Little Ida Luda lay,
[D] Ida Luda little,
Little, little, level, level,
[A] And the little Ida Luda [D] turkey [A] too.
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