Big Tex's Girl Lyrics - Singles - 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