THE GIRLS FROM TEXAS
Ry Cooder

(James Lewis/Jimmy Holiday/Cliff Chambers)

Well, I met a girl from Texas 'bout a year ago
Hadn't known her for too long when I had to let her go
You see, she had a razor, was ten inches or so
And every night you'd hear her knocking at my door
She said, Baby, I'll give you the clothes on my back
You can have everything that I've got in my shack
But if you ever try to leave they'll take your out in sack
'Cause me and my razor will see to that

That's the way the girls are from Texas
That's the way the girls are from Texas
That's the way the girls are from Texas

I thought about my situation, decided not to tarry
For my own self preservation I decided we should marry
When the preacher started reading 'bout 'till death do us part
I told him, Skip it, we had that understanding right from the start

That's the way the girls are from Texas
That's the way the girls are from Texas (Houston to San Antone)
That's the way the girls are from Texas (Got to love 'em right or leave 'em
alone)

Well, we settled down, got me a little old job, '65 Fairlane Ford
Every Friday night I would stop in and cash my pay check down at the grocery
store
They had a little girl worked in there, must have been about seventeen
She was the cutest thing I had ever seen
It's the same old story and I'm afraid it wasn't too very long
Before we had fallen deeply in love and I knew it was wrong
I said baby, we got to stop this thing right here
Or my woman is gonna cut my throat from ear to ear, that's right
In tearful supplication, she looked up in my face
I could feel her heart was breaking as these sad words she did say
You should have told me you was married, baby
She pulled out a forty-five and let me have it, right smack between the eyes

That's the way the girls are from Texas
That's the way the girls are from Texas
That's the way the girls are from Texas

She was guilty, I was dead
Now, what'd you think that the old judge said ?
Ah, that's just the way the girls are down here in Texas
Case dismissed!

That's the way the girls are from Texas
That's the way the girls are from Texas (Houston to San Antone)
That's the way the girls are from Texas (Got to love 'em right or leave 'em
alone, boy)


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Lyrics by Ry Cooder

  13 QUESTION METHOD   3 Cool Cats   3rd Base, Doger Stadium   5000 Country Music Songs   634-5789   634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A.)   A Canción Mixteca   ACROSS THE BORDERLINE   Across the Borderline [From the Border]   Alimony   ALL SHOOK UP   Always Lift Him Up, Kanaka Wai Wai   ALWAYS LIFT HIM UP/KANAKA WAI WAI   Amor de Loca Juventud   Archie's Funeral   ARCHIE'S FUNERAL (HOLD TO GOD'S UNCHANGING HAND)   At The Dark End Of The Street   Ax Sweet Mama   Better Things to Think About   Big Bad Bill Is Sweet William Now   BILLY THE KID   BLUE SUEDE SHOES   BOOMER'S STORY   Bourgeois Blues   Brother Is Gone   Can I Smoke In Here?   Cancion Mixteca   Chan Chan   Cherry Ball Blues   Chinito Chinito   Chloe   Coast of Malabar   Cole Younger Polka   COMIN' IN ON A WING AND A PRAYER   Crazy 'bout An Automobile   CRAZY 'BOUT AN AUTOMOBILE (Every Woman I Know)   CROW BLACK CHICKEN   Dark End Of The Street   Dark Is the Night   DENOMINATION BLUES   DITTY WAH DITTY   DO RE MI   Don't Call Me Red   DON'T MESS UP A GOOD THING   Dos Gardenias   Down in Hollywood   Down in Mississippi   DOWN IN THE BOONDOCKS   Drive Like I Never Been Hurt   El Carretero   El Cuarto de Tula [Buena Vista Social Club]   El Scorcho [Instrumental]   Escape from Northfield   F.D.R. IN TRINIDAD   Fernando Sez   Filipino Dance Hall Girl   Finale (Over the Rainbow)   Flathead One More Time   FRANCE CHANCE   Get Away   GET RHYTHM   Go Home Girl   Go Home, Girl   Goin' To Brownsville   GOING BACK TO OKINAWA   GOING TO BROWNSVILLE   GOOD MORNING MR. RAILROAD MAN   GOODNIGHT IRENE   Great Dream from Heaven   Gypsy Woman   He Made a Woman Out of Me   HE'LL HAVE TO GO   HEY PORTER   Hold That Snake   HOW CAN A POOR MAN STAND SUCH TIMES AND LIVE ?   How Can You Keep On Moving   HOW CAN YOU KEEP ON MOVING (UNLESS YOU MIGRATE TOO...   I Can Tell By The Way You Smell   I CAN'T WIN   I GOT MINE   I NEED A WOMAN   I'M A GOOD OLD REBEL   I'M DRINKING AGAIN   If Walls Could Talk   IT'S ALL OVER NOW   JESSE JAMES   JESSE JAMES (Another version)   Jesse James [From the Long Riders]   JESUS ON THE MAINLINE   JOHNNY PORTER   La Bayamesa   Leaving Missouri   LET'S HAVE A BALL   LITTLE SISTER   Little Trona Girl   LOOK AT GRANNY RUN RUN   Looking for the Wall Street Part of Town   Los Chucos Suaves   MAMA, DON'T TREAT YOUR DAUGHTER MEAN   Maria Elena   MARRIED MAN'S A FOOL   MEDLEY: FOOL FOR A CIGARETTE/FEELIN' GOOD   MEXICAN DIVORCE   MONEY HONEY   Mutt Romney Blues   My Dwarf Is Getting Tired   My Old Kentucky Home (Turpentine and Dandelion Win...   NEVER MAKE YOUR MOVE TOO SOON   Nobody   Old Kentucky Home   ON A MONDAY   Onda Callejera   ONE MEAT BALL   PIG MEAT   Pigmeat   POLICE DOG BLUES   Poor Man's Shangri-la   Powis Square   PRESIDENT KENNEDY   Rally 'round The Flag   Rally Round the Flag   Ridin With The Blues   Rio Grande [Instrumental]   School Is Out   SENECA SQUARE DANCE   Shine   SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE   Spayed Kooley   SPEEDO   STAND BY ME   Steel Guitar Heaven   TAMP 'EM UP SOLID   Tattler   TAXES ON THE FARMER FEEDS US ALL   TEARDROPS WILL FALL   THAT'S THE WAY LOVE TURNED OUT TO BE   The Dark End of the Street   The Last Sound (Alamo Bay) [From Alamo Bay]   The Long Riders   The Mutt Romney Blues   The Very Thing That Makes You Rich   The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor)   THE WAY WE MAKE A BROKEN HEART   TROUBLE YOU CAN'T FOOL ME   UFO HAS LANDED IN THE GHETTO   Veinte Años   VIGILANTE MAN   Viola Lee Blues   Viva Seguin/ Do Re Mi [Instrumental]   Volver, Volver   Waitin For Some Girl   WHICH CAME FIRST   Why Don't You Try Me   WILDWOOD BOYS   WOMEN WILL RULE THE WORLD   YELLOW ROSES

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