My Eyes Tear Up over Texas

There was this big, tough stranger in the Rattlesnake Saloon.

He was drunk and half outta his head.

But when the jukebox played “San Antonio Rose”

He went soft as a puppy and he said:

“My Eyes Tear Up Over Texas.

That’s the one thing that tears me apart.

When I think of the moonlight on the prairie

It hits me in my big ol’ Texas heart.”

Then that hulk put his paws on my shoulder

And he moaned through the pretzels and the brew,

“My Eyes Tear Up Over Texas

And yours damn well better too.”

He said “My Eyes Tear Up Over Texas

Where you can see for miles and miles.

I would give up my dog and my pick-up

For one of those female Texas smiles.

I can hear those longhorns a-moanin’

Where the skies are a special shade of blue.

Yeah, My Eyes Tear Up Over Texas

And yours’d better tear up too.

Yours damn well better too.”