The Girls From Texas Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[G][F][C]

[Verse 1]
Well, [C]I met a girl from
Texas 'bout a year ago
Hadn't known her for too long
when I [G]had to let her go
You see, she [C]had a razor,
was ten [F]inches or so
And every [G]night you'd hear
her knocking at my [C]door
She said, [F]Baby,
I'll give you the clothes on my back
You can have everything that
I've [C]got in my shack
But if you ever try to leave they'll
take your [F]out in sack
Cause [G]me and my razor
will [C]see to that"
That's the way the girls
are from [G]Texas
That's the way the girls
[C]are from [F]Texas
[G]That's the way the girls are from [C]Texas[G][C]
I thought about my situation,
decided not to tarry
For my own self preservation I
[G]decided we should marry
When the [C]preacher started
reading bout till [F]death do us part
I told [G]him, "Skip it,
we had that understanding right from [C]the [F]start"[C][F]
[G]That's [C]the way the girls
are from [G]Texas[C]
That's the way the girls are from
[F]Texas Houston to San Antone
[G]That's the way the girls are from [C]Texas got to love'em right
[G]or leave em alo[C]ne
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Well, we settled down, got me a little old job,
65 Fairlane Ford
Every Friday night I would [G]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
I had ever [C]seen
It's the same old story [G]and I'm
[C]afraid it wasn't too very long
Before we had fallen deeply
[F]in love and I knew it was wrong
I [G]said baby,
[C]we got to stop this thing rig[G]ht here
Or my woman is gonna cut my throat from ear [C]to ear,
[F]that's right
Tearful suffocation,
she looked up in my face
I could feel her heart was [G]break[C]ing
as these sad words she did say
"You should have told me you was mar[G]ried,
baby"
She pulled out a forty- five and let me have it,
right [F]smack [C]between the eyes
That's the way the girls
are from [G]Texas
That's the way the girls
are from [C]Texas
That's the way the girls are from Texas
She was guilty, I [F]was dead
Now, what'd you think that
the old judge [G]said ?
[C]"Ah, that's just the way the girls are down
here in [G]Texas Case dismissed!"
That's the way the girls
are from [C]Texas
That's the way the girls are from
[F]Texas Houston to San Antone
That's [G]the way the girls are from [C]Texas got to
[G]lov[G]e'em right or leave'em alone, boy[C]