It's 1200 miles from Palm Springs to Texas
  But tonight it's right next door
  For a week each year
  It's the old frontier
  That's what brings them here, western atmosphere
  You can't tell the dudes from real riding cowboys
  When they sashay across the floor
  There's the circus means, lots and lots of thrills
  Folks from Houston yeah, and from Beverly Hills
  Clowning from the Shamrock right to the Almiera door
  You'll find it's 1200 miles from Palm Springs to Texas
  But tonight it's right next door
  
  
  Do you see that parade
  Do you hear that parade
  Coming down Palm Canyon Drive
  But if you see that parade
  Come on and cheer that parade if you're 8 or 85
  Who's that riding up ahead
  Why it's the govenor of Texas someone said
  What's he doing up this way
  Why it Palm Springs and Texas day
  
  
  Ah, you can't tell the dudes from real riding cowboys
  When they sashay across the floor
  Folks are trading in all their Cadillacs
  For those pinto ponies and cowhide slacks
  And there's no one left down at Neiman Marcus' store
  Because it's 1200 miles from Palm Spring to Texas
  But tonight it's right next door