The Girls From Texas Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
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[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
[C]You see, she 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 [G]that"
[C]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 [F]Texas
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thought about my situation,
decided not to tarry
For my own self preservation I de
[G]cided 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
[C]right from [F]the start"[C][G][C][F][G]
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That's the way the girls
are from [G]Texas
That's the way the girls are from
[C]Texas Houston to San Antone
That's the way the girls are from [F]Texas [G]got to love'em right
or leave [C]em alone[G]
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Well, we settled down, got [G]me a little old [F]job,
[C]65 Fairlane Ford
Every Friday night [G]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
She was the cutest [C]thing
I had ever [G]seen[C]
It's the same [F]old story and [C]I'm afraid
it wasn't too very long
Before we had fallen deeply in [F]love
and I knew it was wrong
I said baby,
[G]we got to [C]stop this thing right here
[G]Or my woman is gonna cut my thr[C]oat from ear to ear,
that's [F]right
Tearful suffocation,
she looked up in my face
I could feel her heart was break[G]ing as
[C]these sad words she did say
"You should have told me you was married,
[G]baby"
She pulled out a forty- five and let me have it,
[C]right smack between the eyes
[G]Tha[C]t's the way the girls
are from [G]Texas
That's the way the girls
are from Texas
That's the way the girls are from [C]Texas
She was guilty, I was dead
[F]Now, what'd you think
that the old judge said ?
"Ah, [G]that's just the way the girls are down
[C]here in Texas Case dismissed!"
That's the way the girls
are from [G]Texas
That's the way the girls are from
[C]Texas Houston to San Antone
That's the way the girls are from [F]Texas [G]got to love'em right [C]or leave'em alone,

[Outro 1]
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