Key: C major
Intro 1
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F
C
Verse 1
Texas 'bout a year ago
Hadn't known her for too long
I'll give you the clothes on my back
You can have everything that
But if you ever try to leave they'll
That's the way the girls
That's the way the girls
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F
are from Texas
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C
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C
That's the way the girls are from Texas
I thought about my situation,
decided not to tarry
For my own self preservation I
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we had that understanding right from the start"
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C
That's the way the girls
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C
are from Texas
That's the way the girls are from
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C
That's the way the girls are from Texas got to love'em right
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C
or leave em alone
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C
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Dm
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Well, we settled down, got me a little old job,
65 Fairlane Ford
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Every Friday night I would stop in and cash my
pay check down at the grocery store
They had a little girl worked in there,
must have been about seventeen
She was the cutest thing
Before we had fallen deeply
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G
we got to stop this thing right here
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Or my woman is gonna cut my throat from ear to ear,
Tearful suffocation,
she looked up in my face
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I could feel her heart was breaking
as these sad words she did say
baby"
She pulled out a forty- five and let me have it,
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C
right smack between the eyes
That's the way the girls
That's the way the girls
That's the way the girls are from Texas
Now, what'd you think that
That's the way the girls
That's the way the girls are from
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That's the way the girls are from Texas got to
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love'em right or leave'em alone, boy
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG F C Dm
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