Every May we kill a rattlesnake or two Coping
with the scorpions is good for you
You'll become accustomed to the roaches too So
won't you come on down to Texas for a while
Now living down in Houston sure can be a thrill
Why Mickey Gilly kills me if he don't the
highways will
Some folkening and crying out their window sills
Hollering come on down to Texas for a while
If you like the hurricanes you move down to the coast
Folks up round Austin like tornadoes they flood
the coast
Go from where? Michigan to Detroit will hush my mouth
You've arrived in time for the seven year drought
So don't move down to Laredo be part of the mob
The odds are 25 to one that you can't find a job
Some folk eating sweet corn cause they tossing
you the cops
But come on down to Texas for a while
At the Oklahoma border you will run into a wall
Made of jalapeno peppers you don't have to eat
them all
But you must eat a pint or two it really ain't
that hard
For one like you who wants to earn his salsa card
You don't see many U-Hauls heading north on 35
I wonder how these immigrants are planning to survive
It should be a sin to teach a Yankee how to drive
But come on down to Texas
Come on down to Texas for a while