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Bayou Tortous Lyrics by James McMurtry

Just Us Kids

2008

[Verse 1]
Got a idea, tell you what let's do
Let's go out to that place on the Turtle Bayou
We'll maybe get lucky, maybe get shot
It couldn't be half the trouble I got
[Refrain]
Turtle Bayou turn around
Turtle Bayou turn around
[Verse 2]
Just another night with the missus and me
Settin' on the couch watchin' Court TV
But lemme tell you son it can sure get real
If you ever get to thinkin' it's a done deal
[Chorus]
Turtle Bayou turn around
Get your big feet up off the ground
Turtle Bayou turn around
We'll pass a good time out past the lights of town
[Instrumental]
[Verse 3]
She comes from the land of the Bois d'Arc tree
Scotts Irish and Cherokee
She come down here when the northers blow
She don't care for the ice and snow
[Chorus]
Turtle Bayou turn around
Get your big feet up off the ground
Turtle Bayou turn around
We'll pass a good time out past the lights of town
[Instrumental]
[Bridge]
Take my hand Oklahoma Jane
One little dance wouldn't hurt a thing
Now it's noon, I'm rollin' up the drive
And I ain't even got a decent lie
[Verse 4]
Doesn't everybody get that way sometimes?
I was lookin' at every woman but mine
I was lookin' at the faces, lookin' at the parts
Lookin' through the hole in the bottom of my heart
[Chorus]
Turtle Bayou turn around
Get your big feet up off the ground
Turtle Bayou turn around
We'll pass a good time out past the lights of town
[Refrain]
Turtle Bayou turn around
Turtle Bayou turn around
Credits
James McMurtry

James McMurtry

About “Bayou Tortous” by James McMurtry

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"Bayou Tortous" appears on "Just Us Kids " in 2008.

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