[ti:The Ides of Texas (And Don't Fence Me In)]
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[00:00.00]The Ides of Texas (And Don't Fence Me In) - Chat Mitchell Trio
[00:03.36]Written by：Cole Porter/Martin/Fred Ebb
[00:06.73]Some of america's most beautiful ballads
[00:10.28]Come from the land of the sagebrush and sun
[00:13.76]The great southwest
[00:16.23]You've heard how us folks down in texas
[00:21.75]Boast of our home in the west
[00:26.58]You've heard us a sayin' in texas
[00:31.90]That things are the biggest and best
[00:37.11]Well a few months ago in the papers
[00:42.47]A fabulous story come out
[00:47.70]Which proves that us folks down in texas
[00:53.18]Know what we're talking about
[00:58.58]Here's to a guy with a big texas smile
[01:05.53]Who knows what it means to have real texas style
[01:12.51]Here's to a fella who couldn't think small
[01:19.59]Here's to the biggest embezzler of all
[01:26.89]Billie sol estes we're proud of you son
[01:30.12]Hey billie billie hey billie billie billie
[01:32.90]You had to be texan to do what you done
[01:36.26]Hey billie billie hey billie billie sol
[01:39.16]While other kids saved up their nickels and dimes
[01:42.04]For jellybeans liq'rice and fudge
[01:44.82]Well billie saved too
[01:46.57]And when he had enough
[01:48.33]He bought him a federal judge
[01:51.52]While still in his teens he was very perplexed
[01:54.60]As to what field his fortune was hid
[01:57.75]His uncle suggested he go into steel
[02:00.67]And that's just what billie boy did
[02:04.21]Billie sol estes that boy really cooks
[02:07.31]Hey billie billie hey billie billie billie
[02:09.66]He had one shining purpose
[02:11.90]And two sets of books
[02:13.51]Hey billie billie hey billie billie sol
[02:16.19]There once was a senator bill tried to bribe
[02:19.33]So bill had a wonderful notion
[02:21.58]Oh what a friend we have in billie
[02:24.56]He sent him a yacht but that wasn't enough
[02:27.36]So billie boy threw in an ocean
[02:30.64]Billie sol estes we're proud of you mate
[02:33.71]Hey billie billie hey billie billie billie
[02:36.52]It's hombres like you that make texas so great
[02:40.07]Hey billie billie hey billie billie sol
[02:44.27]B is for the billions he's been bilkin'
[02:49.37]Good ole billion bilkin' billie
[02:51.93]I is to indemnify his loss
[02:55.92]They use a lot of ammonia up there billie
[02:57.68]That's why they call it the white house
[02:59.91]L is for the loans from uncle sammy
[03:04.67]Why thank ye cousin orville
[03:06.55]Then double l just like in double cross
[03:14.51]I is for the interest he's accruin'
[03:19.02]Praise the lord and pass the fertilizer billie
[03:22.00]E is for the eggheads he outsmarts
[03:27.14]Put them all together you've got billie sol
[03:33.02]Whose initials are emblazed on our hearts
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[03:41.70]Billie sol estes we're proud of you boy
[03:44.79]Hey billie billie hey billie billie billie
[03:46.98]Next to you jimmy hoffa is lord fauntleroy
[03:50.78]Hey billie billie hey billie billie sol
[03:53.40]Now they're gonna take billie away to the clink
[03:56.53]And the way things look now it appears
[03:59.81]For all of the wheelin' and dealin' he's done
[04:02.66]He'll get three thousand four hundred years
[04:09.35]Oh give me land lots of land
[04:13.83]Under starry skies above
[04:17.90]Don't fence me in
[04:21.90]Let me ride through the wide open country that I love
[04:28.08]Could pull down a sentence like that
[04:31.25]Billie sol estes you're really a doll
[04:34.20]Hey billie billie hey billie billie billie
[04:36.95]There's houston and crockett
[04:38.50]And now billie sol
[04:41.71]And remember billie boy
[04:42.83]We're behind you all the way
[04:44.59]Me and ladybug
[04:45.73]Hey billie billie hey billie sol estes