Key: C major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
a girl from 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
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see to that"
That's the way the girls
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I
thought about my situation,
decided not to tarry
For my own self preservation I de
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I told him, "Skip it, we had that understanding
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right from the start"
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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 love'em right
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or leave em alone
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Well, we settled down, got me a little old job,
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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
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I had ever seen
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It's the same old story and I'm afraid
it wasn't too very long
and I knew it was wrong
I said baby,
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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
"You should have told me you was married,
She pulled out a forty- five and let me have it,
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That's the way the girls
That's the way the girls
are from Texas
She was guilty, I was dead
that the old judge said ?
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 love'em right or leave'em alone,
Outro 1
boy
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG F C
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