Mentioned by SDShad on 26-Apr-2000:


RITA BALLOU
As recorded by Guy Clark on "The South Coast of Texas"

She could dance that slow bandera,*
Shuffle to some cowboy hustle.
How she made them trophy buckles shine, shine, shine!
Wild-eyed and Mexican silvered,
Trickin' dumb old cousin Willard
Into thinkin' that he got her this time.

CHORUS: Hill-country honky-tonkin' Rita Ballou,
Ever' beer joint in town has played a fool for you.
Backslidin' barrel-ridin' Rita Ballou,
Ain't a cowboy in Texas would not ride a bull for you.

She's a rawhide-rope-and-velvet mixture,
Walkin', talkin', Texas-texture,
High-timin', barroom-fixture kind of a girl.
She's the queen of the cowboys.
Look at old Willard grinnin' now, boys.
You'd 'a' thought there's less fools in this world. CHORUS

So good luck, Willard, and here's to ya,
And here's to Rita, and I hope she'll do ya
Right all night.
Lord, I wish I was the fool in your shoes. CHORUS TWICE


[* I don't know what a bandera is, but I suspect it comes from Bandera, Texas.]