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The Girls From Texas chords by
Ry Cooder
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Key: C major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Well, I met

a girl from Texas 'bout a year ago

Hadn't known her for too long
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when I had to let her go
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You see, she had a razor,
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was ten inches or so
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And every night you'd hear
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her knocking at my door
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She said, Baby,

I'll give you the clothes on my back

You can have everything that
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I've got in my shack

But if you ever try to leave they'll
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take your out in sack
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Cause me and my razor will
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C

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see to that"
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That's the way the girls
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are from Texas

That's the way the girls
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are from Texas
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That's the way the girls are from Texas
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I

thought about my situation,

decided not to tarry

For my own self preservation I de
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cided we should marry
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When the preacher started
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reading bout till death do us part
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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
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are from Texas

That's the way the girls are from
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Texas Houston to San Antone
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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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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
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She was the cutest thing
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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
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Before we had fallen deeply in love

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,
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that's right

Tearful suffocation,

she looked up in my face
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I could feel her heart was breaking as
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these sad words she did say

"You should have told me you was married,
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baby"

She pulled out a forty- five and let me have it,
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right smack between the eyes
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That's the way the girls
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are from Texas

That's the way the girls

are from Texas
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That's the way the girls are from Texas

She was guilty, I was dead
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Now, what'd you think

that the old judge said ?
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"Ah, that's just the way the girls are down
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here in Texas Case dismissed!"

That's the way the girls
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are from Texas

That's the way the girls are from
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Texas Houston to San Antone
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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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Tuning:Standard Open Tuner
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The original key of The Girls From Texas by Ry Cooder is C major.

The primary chords used in The Girls From Texas are G, F, C.

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Yes, this version uses open chords like G, F, C, making it a great song for beginner guitarists.

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