(James Lewis/Jimmy Holiday/Cliff Chambers)
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Well, I met a girl from Texas 'bout a year ago
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Hadn't known her for too long when I had to let her go
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You see, she had a razor, was ten inches or so
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And every night you'd hear her knocking at my door
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She said, "Baby, I'll give you the clothes on my back
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You can have everything that I've got in my shack
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But if you ever try to leave they'll take your out in sack
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'Cause me and my razor will see to that"
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That's the way the girls are from Texas
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That's the way the girls are from Texas
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That's the way the girls are from Texas
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I thought about my situation, decided not to tarry
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For my own self preservation I decided we should marry
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When the preacher started reading 'bout 'till death do us part
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I told him, "Skip it, we had that understanding right from the start"
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That's the way the girls are from Texas
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That's the way the girls are from Texas (Houston to San Antone)
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That's the way the girls are from Texas (Got to love 'em right or leave 'em
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alone)
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Well, we settled down, got me a little old job, '65 Fairlane Ford
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Every Friday night I would stop in and cash my pay check down at the grocery
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store
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They had a little girl worked in there, must have been about seventeen
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She was the cutest thing I had ever seen
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It's the same old story and I'm afraid it wasn't too very long
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Before we had fallen deeply in love and I knew it was wrong
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I said baby, we got to stop this thing right here
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Or my woman is gonna cut my throat from ear to ear, that's right
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In tearful supplication, she looked up in my face
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I could feel her heart was breaking as these sad words she did say
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"You should have told me you was married, baby
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She pulled out a forty-five and let me have it, right smack between the eyes
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That's the way the girls are from Texas
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That's the way the girls are from Texas
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That's the way the girls are from Texas
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She was guilty, I was dead
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Now, what'd you think that the old judge said ?
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"Ah, that's just the way the girls are down here in Texas
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Case dismissed!"
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That's the way the girls are from Texas
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That's the way the girls are from Texas (Houston to San Antone)
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That's the way the girls are from Texas (Got to love 'em right or leave 'em
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alone, boy)
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THE GIRLS FROM TEXAS
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Ry Cooder |