{"id":70,"date":"2021-05-10T01:26:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T01:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=70"},"modified":"2026-03-14T00:12:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:12:48","slug":"all-my-exes-live-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/all-my-exes-live-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"All My Exes Live in Texas\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by George Strait &#8211; &#8211; Key of A<br \/>\n<input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69ea79ab199835043066640' value='69ea79ab199835043066640'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69ea79ab199835043066640' value='Show More'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69ea79ab199835043066640' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69ea79ab199835043066640' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Show More<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69ea79ab199835043066640' ><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;font-weight: 900;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">&#8220;All My Ex&#8217;s Live In Texas&#8221; is a song written by Sanger D. Shafer and Lyndia J. Shafer, and recorded by American country music singer George Strait. It was released in April 1987 as the second single from Strait&#8217;s album Ocean Front Property. &#8220;All My Ex&#8217;s Live In Texas&#8221; was nominated for Best Male Country Vocal Performance at the 1988 Grammy Awards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16pt;font-weight: 900\"><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ugsChords\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">{ CHORUS } &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; [<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">G<\/em>]<\/strong> All my ex&#8217;s live in <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">D7<\/em>]<\/strong> Texas<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">And Texas is the <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Am<\/em>]<\/strong> place I&#8217;d dearly <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">D<\/em>]<\/strong> love <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">C<\/em>]<\/strong> to <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">G<\/em>]<\/strong> be &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">But all my ex&#8217;s live in <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">D7<\/em>]<\/strong> Texas<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">And that&#8217;s why I hang my hat in Tennes<strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">G<\/em>]<\/strong>see<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ugsChords\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">G<\/em>]<\/strong> Rosanna&#8217;s down in Texarkana,\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Am<\/em>]<\/strong> wanted me to push her broom.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">D7<\/em>]<\/strong> Sweet Eileen&#8217;s in Abilene, she forgot I hung the <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">G<\/em>]<\/strong> moon.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">And Allison&#8217;s in Galveston, <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Am<\/em>]<\/strong> somehow lost her sanity.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">And <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">A7<\/em>]<\/strong> Dimple&#8217;s who now lives in Temple&#8217;s, Gt the <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">D7<\/em>]<\/strong> law looking for me<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ugsChords\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><strong class=\"chordCol\">{ CHORUS } &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ugsChords\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">G<\/em>]<\/strong> I remember that old Frio River <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Am<\/em>]<\/strong> where I learned to swim.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">But it <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">D7<\/em>]<\/strong> brings to mind another time where I wore my welcome <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">G<\/em>]<\/strong> thin.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">By transcendental meditation <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Am<\/em>]<\/strong> I go there each night.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">But I <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">A7<\/em>]<\/strong> always come back to myself <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">D7<\/em>]<\/strong> long before daylight<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ugsChords\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><strong class=\"chordCol\">{ CHORUS } &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ugsChords\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">D7<\/em>]<\/strong> Some folks think I&#8217;m hidin&#8217; <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">C<\/em>]<\/strong> <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">C#<\/em>]<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">D7<\/em>]<\/strong> It&#8217;s been rumored that I died <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">C<\/em>]<\/strong> <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">C#<\/em>]<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">D7<\/em>]<\/strong> But I&#8217;m alive and well in Tennes<strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[<em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">G<\/em>]<\/strong>see<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by George Strait &#8211; &#8211; Key of A { CHORUS } &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; [G] All my ex&#8217;s live in [D7] Texas And Texas is the [Am] place I&#8217;d dearly [D] love [C] to [G] be &#8211;\u00a0But all my ex&#8217;s live in [D7] Texas And that&#8217;s why I hang my &hellip; 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