| 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 off 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 you 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, she had that understanding right from the start»
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| She said, «Baby, I’ll give you the clothes off 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 you 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 (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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| That’s the way the girls are from Texas
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| Yeah that’s the way the girls are from Texas
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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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| So 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
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| 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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| As 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! |
| (That's the way the girls are from Texas)
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| Now, what’d you think that the old judge said? |
| (That's the way the girls are
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| from Texas)
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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 (Houston to San Antone)
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| That’s the way the girls are from Texas (Love 'em right or leave 'em alone, boy)
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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 |