when your money s gone friends have turned you down and you wander round just like a hound then you stop to say let me go away from this old town there s a place i know folks won t pass me by dallas texas that s the town i cry and i m going back going back to stay there til i die i ve got the dallas blues and the main street heart disease i ve got the dallas blues and the main street heart disease buzzin round my head like a swarm of little honey bees when i got up north clothes i had to spare sol em all to pay my railroad fare just to come back there ridin in a pullman parlor chair sent a telegram this is what i said baby bring a cold towel for my head got the dallas blues and your lovin man is almost dead i m goin put myself on a santa fe and go i m goin to put myself on a santa fe and go to that texas town where you never see the ice and snow 