All My Ex's Live in Texas - Whitey Shafer

[00:00.000]All my ex's live in Texas,
[00:23.860]And Texas is a place I'd dearly love to be.
[00:31.720]But all my ex's live in Texas
[00:38.590]And that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee.
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[00:46.330]Rosanna's down in Texarcana; wanted me to push her broom,
[00:53.680]And sweet Ilene's in Abilene; she forgot I hung the moon,
[01:01.030]And Allison in Galveston somehow lost her sanity,
[01:08.430]And Dimples who now lives in Temple's
[01:12.600]Got the law lookin’ for me.
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[01:16.960]All my ex's live in Texas,
[01:23.140]And Texas is a place I'd dearly love to be.
[01:30.550]But all my ex's live in Texas
[01:35.340]And that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee.
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[02:01.100]I remember that old Frio river where I learned to swim.
[02:08.730]And it brings to mind another time where I wore my welcome thin.
[02:16.830]My transcendental meditation, I go there each night,
[02:23.160]But I always come back to myself
[02:27.840]Long before daylight.
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[02:30.850]All my ex's live in Texas,
[02:36.850]And Texas is a place I'd dearly love to be.
[02:44.480]But all my ex's live in Texas
[02:51.580]And that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee.
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[02:59.660]Some folks think I'm hidin',
[03:03.170]It's been rumored that I died,
[03:07.090]But I'm alive and well in Tennessee.
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