Waylon Jennings - Waltz Across Texas Lyrics

This is the problem with being a modern country drummer: many old country musicians were uneducated and didnt know what a waltz was. It's typically a 3/4 time signature - 6/8 would work as well. You count "1,2,3". Then repeat - "1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3" and so on. To play "waltz across texas" in 2/4 or 4/4 is a disgrace. But that's just my opinion. I'm sure many dancers feel the same.

done beautifully by Waylon only drawback this beautiful song should have been ( FADED OUT ) i dont like the way this song ends not like WAYLON
all the way from beautiful
nassau,bahamas

GREAT WAYLON R I P

This is beautiful by WAYLON JENNINGS BUT for the end waylon always FADE OUT his song endings but not on this one ☝️

I lost my husband last July and this music was so much of our life, Miss every second of it. Love you Lanny.

Sooo toll

best song ever

miss you Wylon ...

I like it just the way it is. Variety is important.

RIP WAYLON TO COOL

Cause he is the man..number on out law...I love you Waylon jennings♡ give me some more if it...people now of days don't know about this or his music...but I do:)

"There's always at least one more way to do things, and that's _your way_, and you have a right to try it at least once." - Waylon Jennings. That's a great quote from him. I have it on my bathroom mirror.
I love his funkier stuff like this. But not as much as I love the way he told the world "I can be any kind of me I wanna be." He was so ahead of his time.

its a fairyland that comes true.

He murdered a great song here.

Raul Malo and The Mavericks do it much better!

He has always been know for being outside the box.
Not everybody can be an ignorant, racist, piece of shit like "Jay Igaboo"

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He has always been know for being outside the box.
Not everybody can be an ignorant, racist, piece of shit like "Jay Igaboo"..... Thankfully, not everyone is in the same box as you are: the one marked "Stupid, unthinkingly conformist, time-serving and sanctimonius libtarded prig".
A certain amount of race conciousness is a healthy dynamic in any society, but you're too fucking brainwashed to ever consider that, you just spew out your hackneyed "racist" crap and expect everyone to roll over-- it's getting old. To put it in words you'll understand, "Go fuck yourself."

Ignorance really must be bliss, if you honestly believe that shit about "race conciousness". Which you misspelled by the way(it's consciousness). You are just trying to justify your rancid neo-nazi spew with some mediocre vocabulary and 7th grade spelling. You are the very opposite of enlightened. Go back to cutting eye holes in your pillow cases and humping your cousin. Leave the civilized world to the more evolved people.

Ad hominem abuse, pedantry, accusations of Nazism and KKK membership, et cetera, how surprising to have these clichés levelled at one, after all it’s not as if it’s a libtard’s knee-jerk Pavlovian reaction, is it?
I misspelled one word? The horror!
Yes, of course, that would COMPLETELY invalidate all my points.( It may have been a typo, maybe not, as I wasn't preparing an article to be published in a prestigious journal, I was merely posting a quick retort to a pompous clown.)
Nota bene: If you are going to be a pedantic cunt, do at least try to spell a simple 4-letter word like "Nazi" correctly, you dim-witted dope-dependent fuckwit.

". Go back to cutting eye holes in your pillow cases"........ PC pseudo-liberal bigots like you are closer psychologically and emotionally to Nazis and KKK types, both are obsessed with dictating everyone's attitude to race, and possessed of the same lynch-mob mentality.
“ and humping your cousin”……. I say, old chap, isn’t that a rather racist and false stereotype of country-dwelling White Americans?
It’s so uncalled for, after all I didn’t suggest that you go back to getting humped by your boyfriend.
You can have the last word, life’s too short for trading insults with internet arseholes—Byeeee!

Great photos of the beautiful state.

I can see my Sister "Shane" just dragin  across Texas

Too Cool

I love Waylon, but why does he do this in 4/4? I mean it is a song about waltzing...

+swinggeist  I have the same opinion....

Yup--it stinks, it's much better in 3/4.

his stlye OUTLAW

To the "trio" below :- The song is written as a waltz, guys. A beautiful "Country Song" & my favourite version in the 3/4 -tempo is by Willie Nelson. HOWEVER, Waylon gives it a sort of Country-Rock feel & I admire him for it. He was always "his own man", and sings a "Rock"song about a Country "Waltz". There is nothing wrong with being a little different.
Rest in peace, Waylon. Lisa, Jessie, myself & thousands of others have always enjoyed your music. Desmond Kelly.

Can't say I like it much (cannabis not doing it for me tonight)

Thanks for this!!  Amazing!!

Waylon can make any song his own.   He is the best singer ever.  I MISS him terribly.    I am so thankful that I discovered him in the sixtees and then of course during his best years in the 70's.   I have never stopped listening to HIM since.  R.I.P. Waylon so talented and so handsome.

Who's the banjer picker there at the end?

+SteelguitarLane I think it's Jerry Van Dyke or maybe George Segal

By the way...that's THE Jerry Reed on electric guitar. If you listen real close near the end, you can hear him laughing.

This song is dedicated to a very good friend who passed away before his time,

I`m convinced Waylon could out sing anyone---I miss him and Jessi so much---

Ernest would be proud Waylon even wanted to sing one of his songs---they both are GREAT singers=======I sure do miss Waylon------

Damn screwed up as a waltz!

In it's own way? Hell boy it is great.

Thanks for posting. Waylon's version is my favorite. I went to see him at Pine Knob, Michigan in the eighties. Great time. Love the pictures. Some of them look like Caddo Lake. I spent many happy hours fishing there when I was young.

Saw so many good shows out at ol Pine Knob, Hank Jr, Grand Funk... long live the memories!

Classic Mooney.

@VolumedMusicMan find a site to rip the song out of youtube and into an mp3... best of all it's free! youtubetomp3 (dot) come is the first that comes to mind.

@camerabugs My thoughts exactly, love Waylon but this has nothing on Ernest Tubb's version

love to hear this man sing ;;

Nice version. Some nice pedal steel guitar work by Ralph Mooney too.

a guy from Boston just fell in love with Texas-just great Music-"pickin and tappin

Wow, this was the first album I ever got!!!

Love the original by ET, but this certainly does it justice.

HE'S MADE IT HIS VERY OWN HASN'T HE...JUST BEAUTIFUL

If you listen real close at 4:20 you can hear the great Jerry Reed giggling. He played guitar on this song.

@VolumedMusicMan
I think yo might be find this song at
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@VolumedMusicManI bought the album back around 1980 , google waylon jenning music man album i found a link for amazon

when this song was being played I was married and living in Houston...how time has changed. Now I live in Pine City, MN

they just dont make music like this any more
brings tears to your eyes. truly great music

Love the "tin pan" background beat...and the song too! Never heard this by Waylon before! Oh wow...I recognized El Paso too...

Who knew that Waylon recorded this Ernest Tubb's classic? In its own way, it's great!

Thanks for the memories!