Everybody pays

When you’re whistling el paso on a cold laredo dawn
And your mind is just as wind-blown as the dirt roads you've been on
When you think you left your wallet on a counter back a ways

Rest assured my pretty babe,
Rest assured my pretty baby,
Everybody pays
Everybody pays

When you’re standing on the front porch and the wind begins to howl
And you know you ought move but you can’t remember how
When it’s only been a minute but it feels like its been days

Rest assured my pretty babe,
Rest assured my pretty baby,
Everybody pays
Everybody pays

When you’re sitting in the bar and the band is setting up
While your friends are shooting pool and falling deep into their cups
While you’re showing them your back and trying to wish them all away

Rest assured my pretty babe,
Rest assured my pretty baby,
Everybody pays
Everybody pays

El caballo’s caught his foreleg in the twisted thorny wire
And he’ll throw himself against it til it gives or he expires
While the mares are grazing easy on the far side of the gate

Rest assured my pretty babe,
Rest assured my pretty baby,
Everybody pays
Everybody pays

When you’re whistling el paso on a cold laredo dawn
When you’re walking in the world but you’re living in a song
While you stamp your little tracks onto a vanished seabed’s clay

Rest assured my pretty babe,
Rest assured my pretty baby,
Everybody pays
Everybody pays