Excuse me, ma'am, I'd like your daughter's hand for the evening There's a new band in town, I'd like to take her down to see them The fiddle player used to be my neighbor and he never slept a day in his life He plays a strawberry ron when he gets going, he can play all night And her mama said, he's a no-good Texas cowboy child He'll love you up and he'll drive you wild when he leaves you He's a no-good Texas rounder girl, no one track mind and it ain't on true love, that's for sure She said, I met his kind before, I met your kind before Excuse me, ma'am, I'd like your daughter's hand for the evening My intentions are good, I'm a man of honor Please ignore any rumors that have blackened my name, I'm just an innocent boy, how could I be to blame? We'll be late for the show and I took her hand and said, let's go And her mama said, he's a no-good Texas cowboy child He'll love you up and he'll drive you wild when he leaves you He's a no-good Texas rounder girl, no one track mind and it ain't on true love, that's for sure She said, I met his kind before, I met your kind before Excuse me, ma'am, I'd like your daughter's hand for the evening I think you know the band, I'd like to take her down to see them I've been led to understand the fiddler was your man, that's why he never slept a day in his life He'd play the strawberry roam just to get you going, then you'd play all night And her daughter said, he's a no-good Texas fiddler man He'll love you up and he'll drive you wild when he leaves you He was a no-good Texas fiddler man, had a one-track mind and it wasn't on true love, that's for sure You met his kind before, even liked his kind before He's a fiddler man and they're not nice, you took your mama, now you're paying the price, girl It's not what she's afraid that I might do, I think she's seeing herself in you, girl He was a fiddler man, fiddler, fiddler, fiddler Mmm