“La Grange” is the first single from ZZ Top’s 1973 Tres Hombres album. It is also their first single to chart in the Billboard Hot 100. A 1992 lawsuit alleged that the one-chord song’s signature riff had been stolen from one of the versions of bluesman John Lee Hooker’s “Boogie Chillun'” The court...
[Verse 1]
Rumor spreading round in that Texas town
About that shack outside La Grange
And you know what I'm talking about
Just let me know if you wanna go
To that home out on the range
They gotta lotta nice girls
Have mercy
A-haw haw haw-haw
Heh, a-haw haw-haw
[Verse 2]
Well, I hear it's fine if you got the time
And the ten to get yourself in
A hmm, hmm
And I hear it's tight most every night
But now I might be mistaken
Hmm, hmm, hmm
Have mercy
[Instrumental Outro: 1:13-3:50]
La Grange was written by Frank Beard & Dusty Hill & Billy F. Gibbons.
La Grange was produced by Bill Ham.