by George Strait – – Key of A
{ CHORUS } – – – [G] All my ex’s live in [D7] Texas
And Texas is the [Am] place I’d dearly [D] love [C] to [G] be –Β But all my ex’s live in [D7] Texas
And that’s why I hang my hat in Tennes[G]see
[G] Rosanna’s down in Texarkana,Β [Am] wanted me to push her broom.Β [D7] Sweet Eileen’s in Abilene, she forgot I hung the [G] moon.Β And Allison’s in Galveston, [Am] somehow lost her sanity.Β And [A7] Dimple’s who now lives in Temple’s, Gt the [D7] law looking for me
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[G] I remember that old Frio River [Am] where I learned to swim.Β But it [D7] brings to mind another time where I wore my welcome [G] thin.Β By transcendental meditation [Am] I go there each night.Β But I [A7] always come back to myself [D7] long before daylight
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[D7] Some folks think I’m hidin’ [C] [C#]
[D7] It’s been rumored that I died [C] [C#]
[D7] But I’m alive and well in Tennes[G]see