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Thread #80417   Message #1465822
Posted By: Celtaddict
19-Apr-05 - 06:18 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: That's the Way the Girls Are in Texas
Subject: Lyr Req: That's the Way the Girls Are in Texas
I have heard this sung by the Gillette Brothers and Camp Street Cafe, Crockett, Texas, and would like the song. Does anyone know who wrote it, who has recorded it? Does anyone have lyrics or more information?
It involves how tough Texas girls are, from the point of view of a man who gets overly involved with two of them; it has lines about you'd better not leave me or I will kill you (it sounds a good deal more lighthearted than that description!) and in the last verse, when he tries out #2, she does him in, and it ends

That's the way the girls are in Texas;
That's the way the girls are in Texas.
She was guilty.
I was dead.
You know what that ole judge said?
"That's the way the girls are in Texas!"

The only reference I found on "search" was the last part quoted on the "You Must Leave Now" thread; I did PM the 'Cat who added it there last December.