In Texas With A Band 

I've traveled all over this whole wide world

Playing songs for smiling faces

From Idaho to old Oslo

And a thousand other places

I've rode on trains and aereoplanes

Ate steak and calamari

Shook the hands of diplomats

And played their fancy parties

Well I don't mean to gripe or brag

Sure the high life has been grand

But I'd trade my wage just to be on stage

In Texas with a band

We'd roll in on a Friday night

Just under the wire

For a dancehall gig back up the rig

And load in the amplifiers

Let's pick a few and check one two

The doors open at seven

Folks come in for two steppin'

The closest thing to Heaven

If I only had one final wish

I'd make it my demand

To play once more to a sawdust floor

In Texas with a band

Take a tour through Texas

And you can find it all

If you close your eyes in Beaumont

It sounds just like Montreal

That stretch from Post to Marfa's

Like that German Autobahn

And Austin's just like Hollywood

With a few more country songs

Where else can you hear steel guitar

Played with accordion

Than a Gulf Coast bar underneath the stars

In Texas with a band