The Girls from Texas (LP版)

The Girls From Texas (LP版) - Ry Cooder (雷·庫德)

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

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"

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

That's the way the girls are from Texas

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

That's the way the girls are from Texas