Lyrics - Big Tex's Girl by Austin Lounge Lizards

(
Hank
Card/
Kristen
Nelson)
You've all heard tell of
Pecos
Bill
Who rode a cyclone 'til it broke
Well, at the
Texas
State
Fair
There's an even bigger bloke
That cowpoke's name is
Big
Tex
Fifty-two feet tall he stands
Outside he's just a mannequin
But inside he's a man
And a man gets lonely
So his heart was full of woe
Until he met a filly
By the name of
Heather
Jo
So at twilight on the border
As the smoke begins to curl
The heard all loves to hear this story
About
Big
Tex's girl
All day long she sits beside
Big
Tex
As he greets the folks at the
State
Fair
You may say her motives are complex
I think she's just happy sitting there
She grew up in
North
Dallas full of angst
So she dyes her hair and wears black leather
But now to that angst she says "
No thanks"
Sticking to
Tex through the hottest weather
She does not have eyes for the prize roosters
And she's cold toward the reptile boy
Corny dogs don't thrill her like they used to
She only needs
Big
Tex to bring her joy
Big
Tex seems to be a happy fella
But his loneliness she recognized
Searching for a tattooed mademoiselle
Not afraid to love a man his size
All her friends in school were non-conformists
So she became a non-conformist, too
But the change inside her was enormous
When
Big
Tex said, "
Je t'aime, mon petit chou"
She's not lost inside the
House of
Mirrors
She no longer rides the
Tilt-a-
Whirl
Midway barkers cannot draw her nearer
She just wants to be
Big
Tex's girl
Howdy, folks.
Welcome to the
State
Fair of
Texas
She hears him saying
Heather
Jo,
I love you, though small minds reject us
Toast them with a giant
Dr.
Pepper
Hoist your turkey legs into the air
To the love birds of two different feathers
And their big romance at the
State
Fair
You might say that their love has no future
The crowd around his feet may taunt and tease
But pardner don't you try to disabuse her'
Cause she's just happy as
Big
Tex's squeeze

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