West Texas Waltz Chords by Joe Ely

[D] _ _ [A] When you're [D] ready for a steady to go dancing, romancing, grab your sweetheart and jump in [A] your car.
_ Drive right on down to the bright side of town.
You'll be glad you don't have to [D] drive far.
_ [A] You'll be happy you don't have to [D] go far.
_ [G] Park your pickup and Cadillacs and Fords and Renaults.
Get [D] out and dance like a Dickens [A] through the West [D] Texas woods.
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_ [D] My pickup needs a tune up.
I better get up and make up my mind to get on in [A]
today.
The tractor's been acting up and the sewer lines are backing up but I'll be dancing tonight [D] anyway.
_ [A] I'll be dancing tonight [D]
anyway.
[G] Cause I count my blessings, I don't count my falls.
[D] I like to dance like a [A] Dickens through the West [D] Texas [F#m] walls.
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Well I found a young cow dog and I told him how now dog, you're a borderline collie and [A] I'm a borderline fool.
But he had some bad habits.
He was scared of jackrabbits.
I sent him off to [D] canine school.
[A] I think they call it [D] obedience school.
[G] But when he came back he couldn't tell a cow from a whore.
[D] But he could dance like a Dickens [A] through the [D] West Texas walls.
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Grandmam and grandpappy, if you want to stay happy, better lace up your best [A] dancing shoes.
Come see us, don't write us.
You can stop your other writers just by dancing away your [D] blues.
[A] Just by dancing away [D] your blues.
[G] So bind up your bunions with band-aids and [D] gauze and come out and dance like a Dickens through the [A] West Texas [D] walls.
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_ [D] Oh yeah! _ _ _
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_ [D] I _ [A] _ _
_ [D] _ _ met a fine lady banker and I sure liked to thank her for the credit she gave me made [A] me shout.
_ She changed my whole attitude and the shore of my gratitude.
I decided I'd just ask [D] her out.
[A] Yeah I thought I just might ask [D] her out.
So _ [G] close up your windows and lock up your vaults and let's [D] go dance like a Dickens through [A] the West [D] Texas walls.
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_ [D] We spent the next to the last dollar in the old ice cream parlor on a milkshake in a mall [A] from a park.
And then we heard us some sound of a honky tonk lounge right next to the ice [D] cream shop.
[A] Next door to the ice [D] cream shop.
Now [G] only two things are better, hand milkshakes and malls and [D] one is dancing like a Dickens [A] through the West [D] Texas walls.
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And the other is something that really is nothing to speak of it's something [A] to do.
And if you've done it before you'll be doing it some more just as soon as the [D] dancing is through.
[A] Right after the dancing [D] is through.
[G] And if anybody asks you why just tell them because [D] we've been dancing like a Dickens [A] through the [D] West Texas walls.
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