Tex's Toast

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Tex's ToastTex stood six foot three, two hundred poundsand he was half drunk the night they announcedthat his old squeeze was altar boundher folks didn't know whether to laughwhen Tex raised his whiskey glassand said, "hey Baby, you're quite a ladyhere's to the best man you'll ever have"well, Tex's toastmade the party stopyou coulda heardev'ry jaw dropan act like thatis hard to followno one knew what to thinkthey just stood holding their drinkscos they found it hard to swallowTex's toastthat gal thought over what Tex had saidabout the best man she'd ever metand the last they saw her was in Tex's Corvetteher dad said she didn't like her exher mom suspected it was that wild cowboy sexbut they both were right, cos later that nightdown in Juarez she married Texyeah, Tex's toastmade the party stopyou coulda heardev'ry jaw dropan act like thatis hard to followno one knew what to thinkthey just stood holding their drinkscos they found it hard to swallowTex's toast(c)2004 Robert George