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