《The Ides of Texas (And Don’t Fence Me in)》歌词

[00:00:00] The Ides of Texas (And Don't Fence Me In) - Chat Mitchell Trio

[00:00:02] Written by：Cole Porter/Martin/Fred Ebb

[00:00:06] Some of america's most beautiful ballads

[00:00:10] Come from the land of the sagebrush and sun

[00:00:13] The great southwest

[00:00:16] You've heard how us folks down in texas

[00:00:21] Boast of our home in the west

[00:00:26] You've heard us a sayin' in texas

[00:00:31] That things are the biggest and best

[00:00:37] Well a few months ago in the papers

[00:00:42] A fabulous story come out

[00:00:47] Which proves that us folks down in texas

[00:00:53] Know what we're talking about

[00:00:58] Here's to a guy with a big texas smile

[00:01:05] Who knows what it means to have real texas style

[00:01:12] Here's to a fella who couldn't think small

[00:01:19] Here's to the biggest embezzler of all

[00:01:26] Billie sol estes we're proud of you son

[00:01:30] Hey billie billie hey billie billie billie

[00:01:32] You had to be texan to do what you done

[00:01:36] Hey billie billie hey billie billie sol

[00:01:39] While other kids saved up their nickels and dimes

[00:01:42] For jellybeans liq'rice and fudge

[00:01:44] Well billie saved too

[00:01:46] And when he had enough

[00:01:48] He bought him a federal judge

[00:01:51] While still in his teens he was very perplexed

[00:01:54] As to what field his fortune was hid

[00:01:57] His uncle suggested he go into steel

[00:02:00] And that's just what billie boy did

[00:02:04] Billie sol estes that boy really cooks

[00:02:07] Hey billie billie hey billie billie billie

[00:02:09] He had one shining purpose

[00:02:11] And two sets of books

[00:02:13] Hey billie billie hey billie billie sol

[00:02:16] There once was a senator bill tried to bribe

[00:02:19] So bill had a wonderful notion

[00:02:21] Oh what a friend we have in billie

[00:02:24] He sent him a yacht but that wasn't enough

[00:02:27] So billie boy threw in an ocean

[00:02:30] Billie sol estes we're proud of you mate

[00:02:33] Hey billie billie hey billie billie billie

[00:02:36] It's hombres like you that make texas so great

[00:02:40] Hey billie billie hey billie billie sol

[00:02:44] B is for the billions he's been bilkin'

[00:02:49] Good ole billion bilkin' billie

[00:02:51] I is to indemnify his loss

[00:02:55] They use a lot of ammonia up there billie

[00:02:57] That's why they call it the white house

[00:02:59] L is for the loans from uncle sammy

[00:03:04] Why thank ye cousin orville

[00:03:06] Then double l just like in double cross

[00:03:14] I is for the interest he's accruin'

[00:03:19] Praise the lord and pass the fertilizer billie

[00:03:22] E is for the eggheads he outsmarts

[00:03:27] Put them all together you've got billie sol

[00:03:33] Whose initials are emblazed on our hearts

[00:03:37] B

[00:03:39] S

[00:03:41] Billie sol estes we're proud of you boy

[00:03:44] Hey billie billie hey billie billie billie

[00:03:46] Next to you jimmy hoffa is lord fauntleroy

[00:03:50] Hey billie billie hey billie billie sol

[00:03:53] Now they're gonna take billie away to the clink

[00:03:56] And the way things look now it appears

[00:03:59] For all of the wheelin' and dealin' he's done

[00:04:02] He'll get three thousand four hundred years

[00:04:09] Oh give me land lots of land

[00:04:13] Under starry skies above

[00:04:17] Don't fence me in

[00:04:21] Let me ride through the wide open country that I love

[00:04:28] Could pull down a sentence like that

[00:04:31] Billie sol estes you're really a doll

[00:04:34] Hey billie billie hey billie billie billie

[00:04:36] There's houston and crockett

[00:04:38] And now billie sol

[00:04:41] And remember billie boy

[00:04:42] We're behind you all the way

[00:04:44] Me and ladybug

[00:04:45] Hey billie billie hey billie sol estes