All My Ex's Live In Texas

George Strait

Written by Sanger D. Shafer and Linda J. Shafer

Key of G · Chords: I II V ii

Verse 1

G                   D7
All my Ex's live in Texas
                 Am                       G
And Texas is the place I'd dearly love to be
                    D7
All my Ex's Live in Texas
                                      G
And that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee

Verse 2

                            Am
Rosanna's down in Texarkana wanted me to push her broom
D7                                              G
Sweet Eileen's in Abilene she forgot I hung the moon
                           Am
And Allison's in Galveston somehow lost her sanity
    A7                                        D7
And Dimples who now lives in Temple's got the law looking for me

Verse 1

G                   D7
All my Ex's live in Texas
                 Am                       G
And Texas is the place I'd dearly love to be
                    D7
All my Ex's Live in Texas
                                      G
And that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee

Verse 3

G                              Am
I remember that ole Frio River where I learned to swim
       D7                                                  G
But it brings to mind another time where I wore my welcome thin
                             Am
By transcendental meditation I go there each night
      A7                         D7
But I always come back to myself long before daylight

Verse 4

G                   D7
All my Ex's live in Texas
                 Am                       G
And Texas is the place I'd dearly love to be
                    D7
All my Ex's Live in Texas
                                G
And therefore I reside in Tennessee

Verse 5

D7
Some folks think I'm hiding it's been rumored that I died
                                G
But I'm alive and well in Tennessee