Strongheaded Woman - Billie Ray Martin

We met in Las Vegas at the slot machines

You pulled me like the aces and the queens

With your sequinned blazer and your rhinestone smile

You came ablaze out of the flaming red lights

You said I was the seetest thing you’ve ever seem

You said that we could be a winning team

But when you spoke of honeymoon and Chemps Elisee

It looked like lady luck had smiled down on me

But the only threshhold that you carried me over

Was the borderline of trash

Before the night wa over

And it’s gonna take a strongheaded woman

Picking up the whole of this mess

And getting out of this hired dress

And it’s gonna take a strgongheaded woman

Picking up my chips if I’m able

And get off of his highway

And back to the tables

And while I dreamed of Paris through a veil of beer

You said let’s go and tie the knot right here

Oh but is the way to treat your fiancee

A drive-through chapel and an all-in buffet

And a fake priest dressed as Elvis sang ‘Love me tender'

While a hired dwarf witness played an imitation fender

And it’s gonna take a strongheaded woman

Picking up the whole of this mess

And getting out of this hired dress

And it’s gonna take a strgongheaded woman

Picking up my chips if I’m able

And get off of his highway

And back to the tables

Now, You can say I’m dumb and blind

Or blame it on my trusting mind

But with dime and dance romances

Well, you gotta take your chances

Now I’m at the hot dog stand

With a motel key in hand

And I’m runnin'

And I’m runnin'

And it’s gonna take a strongheaded woman

Picking up the whole of this mess

And getting out of this hired dress

And it’s gonna take a strgongheaded woman

Picking up my chips if I’m able

And get off of his highway

And it’s gonna take a strongheaded woman

Picking up the whole of this mess

And getting out of this hired dress

And it’s gonna take a strgongheaded woman

Picking up my chips if I’m able

And make sure that before dawn

I’ll be back at the tables