{"id":70,"date":"2021-05-10T01:26:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T01:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/?p=70"},"modified":"2026-05-09T01:26:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T01:26:03","slug":"all-my-exes-live-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/all-my-exes-live-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"All My Exes Live in Texas\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\">\n<p>by George Strait \u2013 \u2013 Key of A<br \/>\n<input type=\"hidden\" bg_collapse_expand=\"69fe8cf9dc47f7038194860\" value=\"69fe8cf9dc47f7038194860\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"bg-show-more-text-69fe8cf9dc47f7038194860\" value=\"Show More\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"bg-show-less-text-69fe8cf9dc47f7038194860\" value=\"Show Less\"><button id=\"bg-showmore-action-69fe8cf9dc47f7038194860\" class=\"bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  \" style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Show More<\/button><\/p>\n<div id=\"bg-showmore-hidden-69fe8cf9dc47f7038194860\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;font-weight: 900;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">\u201cAll My Ex\u2019s Live In Texas\u201d 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\u2019s album Ocean Front Property. \u201cAll My Ex\u2019s Live In Texas\u201d was nominated for Best Male Country Vocal Performance at the 1988 Grammy Awards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16pt;font-weight: 900\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"ugsChords\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">[CHORUS] \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 <em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[A]<\/em><\/strong> All my ex\u2019s live in <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[E7]<\/em><\/strong> Texas<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">And Texas is the <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[Bm]<\/em><\/strong> place I\u2019d dearly <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[E]<\/em><\/strong> love <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[D]<\/em><\/strong> to <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[A]<\/em><\/strong> be \u2013&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">But all my ex\u2019s live in <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[E7]<\/em><\/strong> Texas<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">And that\u2019s why I hang my hat in Tennes<strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[A]<\/em><\/strong>see<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ugsChords\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[A]<\/em><\/strong> Rosanna\u2019s down in Texarkana,&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[Bm]<\/em><\/strong> wanted me to push her broom.&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[E7]<\/em><\/strong> Sweet Eileen\u2019s in Abilene, she forgot I hung the <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[A]<\/em><\/strong> moon.&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">And Allison\u2019s in Galveston, <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[Bm]<\/em><\/strong> somehow lost her sanity.&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">And <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[B7]<\/em><\/strong> Dimple\u2019s who now lives in Temple\u2019s, Gt the <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[E7]<\/em><\/strong> law looking for me<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ugsChords\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><strong class=\"chordCol\">[CHORUS] \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ugsChords\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[A]<\/em><\/strong> I remember that old Frio River <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[Bm]<\/em><\/strong> where I learned to swim.&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">But it <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[E7]<\/em><\/strong> brings to mind another time where I wore my welcome <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[A]<\/em><\/strong> thin.&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">By transcendental meditation <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[Bm]<\/em><\/strong> I go there each night.&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">But I <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[B7]<\/em><\/strong> always come back to myself <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[E7]<\/em><\/strong> long before daylight<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ugsChords\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><strong class=\"chordCol\">[CHORUS] \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ugsChords\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[E7]<\/em><\/strong> Some folks think I\u2019m hidin\u2019 <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[D]<\/em><\/strong> <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[D#]<\/em><\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[E7]<\/em><\/strong> It\u2019s been rumored that I died <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[D]<\/em><\/strong> <strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[D#]<\/em><\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[E7]<\/em><\/strong> But I\u2019m alive and well in Tennes<strong class=\"chordCol\" style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[A]<\/em><\/strong>see<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"printfriendly pf-button pf-button-content pf-alignleft\">\n                    <a href=\"#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; 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