Intro
| A | E | E | A |
Vox on the 1
| A | E |
| All my ex’s live in T | exas |
Make sure to get down to the 1 of the chord (2 of the key) on “place”
| Bm | Bm/F# | Fdim7 | A | |
| And Texas is the | place I’d dearly | love | to be |
| A | E | |
| But a | ll my ex’s live in | Texas |
| A | |
| And that’s why I hang my hat in Tenne | ssee |
| A | Bm | |
| Rosa | nna’s down in Texarkana, | wanted me to push her broom |
| E7 | A |
| Sweet Eileen’s in Abilene, she forgot I hung the | moon |
| A | Bm | |
| And | Allison’s in Galveston, | somehow lost her sanity |
Vox on 1 2 of the chord (3 4 of the key) on “dimples”, 6 5 of the chord (3 2 of the key) on “law-aw”
| B7 | E7 | |
| And | Dimples, who now lives in Temple’s got the | law lookin’ for me |
| A | E |
| All my ex’s live in T | exas |
| Bm | Bm/F# | Fdim7 | A | |
| And Texas is the | place I’d dearly | love | to be |
| A | E | |
| But a | ll my ex’s live in | Texas |
| A | |
| And that’s why I hang my hat in Tenne | ssee |
| A | E | E | A |
| A | |
| I rem | ember that ole Frio River |
| Bm |
| Where I learned to swim |
| E | |
| But it | brings to mind another time |
| A | |
| Where I wore my welcome | thin |
| Bm | |
| By transcendental meditation, | I go there each night |
| B7 | E | |
| But I | always come back to myself, | long before daylight |
| A | E |
| All my ex’s live in T | exas |
| Bm | Bm/F# | Fdim7 | A | |
| And Texas is the | place I’d dearly | love | to be |
| A | E | |
| But a | ll my ex’s live in | Texas |
| A | |
| Therefore I reside in Tenne | ssee |
Vox on the 3 of the chord on “some folks”
| E | D | D# | E |
| Some folks thinks I’m hiding | → | → |
| D | D# | E | |
| It’s been rumored that I died | → | → |
| A | |
| But I’m alive and well in Tenne | ssee |
| A6 |