All My Exes Live in Texas

by George Strait – – Key of A

“All My Ex’s Live In Texas” is a song written by Sanger D. Shafer and Lyndia J. Shafer, and recorded by American country music singer George Strait. It was released in April 1987 as the second single from Strait’s album Ocean Front Property. “All My Ex’s Live In Texas” was nominated for Best Male Country Vocal Performance at the 1988 Grammy Awards.

[G] All my ex’s live in [D7] Texas
And Texas is the [Am] place I’d dearly [D] love [C] to [G] be
But all my ex’s live in [D7] Texas
And that’s why I hang my hat in Tennes[G]see

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

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

[D7] Some folks think I’m hidin’ [C] [C#]
[D7] It’s been rumored that I died [C] [C#]
[D7] But I’m alive and well in Tennes[G]see