Hold me close, Ann Marie, the sun is going down   I appreciate your riding here   All the way from town   House has gone to ruins   The grass has gone to seed   And Helen's whistling 'Dixie' now,   And I suspect she will secede   High times and low times   Catch you unaware   High times and low times   Making awful strange affairs      Texas, Texas, both the sexes   Seem to find their way to you   He'll provide the wood tonight   If she supplies the screws   Sunset got the full moon drunk   But she came out, just the same   And Orion took young Virgo home   But soon forgot her name      High times and low times   Catch you unaware   High times and low times   Breeding awful ugly pairs      Peter, peter, hamburger eater   Had a wife and he used to beat her   In time she left the pumpkin patch   Went back to her home town   Over fed and oversexed   Christ, what will they think up next?   It's as creepy as a part time birthday clown      High times and low times   Catch you unaware   High times and low times   Are anything but rare      Cindy married Richard   Sonny married Cher   Liz Taylor married everyone   Nobody seems to care   And if you cruise the pawn shops   On the dirty boulevard   You'll find the wedding rings   And used bedsprings   Among the shotguns and guitars   High times and low times   Yes, I do declare!   High times and low times   They can happen anywhere      Hold me close Ann Marie, the sun is going down   I appreciate your riding here.all the way from town