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