[Intro]
Some of America's most beautiful ballads
Come from the land of the sagebrush and sun
The great Southwest

[Verse 1]
You've heard how us folks down in Texas
Boast of our home in the West
You've heard us a-sayin' in Texas
That things are the biggest and best

[Verse 2]
Well, a few months ago in the papers
A fabulous story come out
Which proves that us folks down in Texas
Know what we're talkin' about

[Verse 3]
Here's to a guy with a big Texas smile
Who knows what it means to have real Texas style
Here's to a fella who couldn't think small
Here's to the biggest embezzler of all

[Chorus]
Billie Sol Estes, we're proud of ya, son
Hey Billie Billie, hey Billie Billie Billie
Ya had to be Texan to do what ya done
Hey Billie Billie, hey Billie Billie Sol
[Verse 4]
While other kids saved up their nickels and dimes
For jellybeans, licorice and fudge
Well, Billie saved, too, and when when he had enough
He bought him a federal judge

[Verse 5]
While still in his teens he was very perplexed
As to what field his fortune was hid (Banking! Finance?)
His uncle suggested he go into steel
And that's just what Billie boy did

[Chorus]
Billie Sol Estes, that boy really cooks
Hey Billie Billie, hey Billie Billie Billie
He had one shinin' purpose and two sets of books
Hey Billie Billie, hey Billie Billie Sol

[Verse 6]
There once was a senator Bill tried to bribe
So Bill had a wonderful notion (What a friend we have in Billie)
He sent him a yacht but that wasn't enough
So Billie boy threw in an ocean

[Chorus]
Billie Sol Estes, we're proud of ya, mate
Hey Billie Billie, hey Billie Billie Billie
It's hombres like you that make Texas so great
Hey Billie Billie, hey Billie Billie Sol
[Bridge 1]
B is for the billions he's been bilkin' (Good ole billion-bilkin' Billie)
I is to indemnify his loss (They use a lot of ammonia up there, Billie
That's why they call it the White House)
L is for the loans from Uncle Sammy (Why, thank ye, Cousin Orville)
Then double L just like in double cross, double cross
I is for the interest he's accruin' (Praise the Lord and pass the fertilizer, Billie)
E is for the eggheads he outsmarts
Put them all together, you've got Billie Sol
Whose initials are emblazed on our hearts
B S

[Chorus]
Billie Sol Estes, we're proud of ya, boy
Hey Billie Billie, hey Billie Billie Billie
And next to you Jimmy Hoffa is Lord Fauntleroy
Hey Billie Billie, hey Billie Billie Sol

[Verse 7]
Now, they're gonna take Billie away to the clink
And the way things look now it appears
For all of the wheelin' and dealin' he's done
He'll get three thousand four hundred years

[Bridge 2]
Oh, give me land, lots of land (And the day they are leadin' old Billie away)
Under starry skies above
Don't fence me in (Why, each Texan will take off his hat)
Let me ride through (For who but a Texan) the wide open country that I love (In all this wide world)
Could pull down a sentence like that?
[Chorus]
Billie Sol Estes, you're really a doll
Hey Billie Billie, hey Billie Billie Billie
There's Houston and Crockett and now Billie Sol
(And remember, Billie boy, we're behind ya all the way
Me and Ladybug)
Hey Billie Billie, hey Billie Sol Estes