Dance Critters

I've been watering my horse since way before noon

Well, I hope that beast gets satisfied soon

I'm a mean old hombre from a border town

Woke up the sheriff and gunned him down

Dance critters when I say dance

Dance critters, dance critters

I've been eating sand and cactus pie

Why, I'm telling you a feller gets mighty dry

My six guns loaded and pointed down

Best keep your feet up off the ground

Dance critters when I say dance

Dance critters, dance critters

It was a town full of violent men and bad women

Nobody had a hard of gold

Justice was unheard of and mercy was rarer still

In the corner of the barroom some musicians played rowdy dancehall jive

The piano was shaped like a coffin

The banjo was made from two pie-tins and bailing wire

I said "Hey, I've got one like that at home"

Even with all that noise I could hear her spurs jangling down the street

Like altar bells they sounded and I struck my breast three times

She'd been gone a while since I don't remember when

"I spent a year in echo canyon" she said, "Just me and my tambourine"

The music stopped…

…And then it started again

And that's where a dance-hall storm began

Dance critters when I say dance

Dance critters, dance critters

Me and old André, the Indian guide

We got three stuffed kittens and a buffalo hide

Head 'um up, move 'um out

When I say dance, you're gonna shout

"Dance, dance, dance, dance"

Dance critters when I say dance

Dance critters, dance critters