Billy Joe Shaver with Waylon Jennings - Heart of Texas Chords

[G] _ _ _ _ I'm proud to be a part of _ the Long Star.
The heart of Texas where I was born, by twist of fate.
The Long Star State's [C] where I'm coming from.
[G] Gadamati's been good to me. _
Where I grew up learning my hee-allee-lo.
With swelling pride, down deep inside me [C] saying,
Go man, go.
You [G] can be all you want to be.
[D] Yeah, it's right there where the best [C] is.
Smack dab in the heart of [G] Texas.
Thank you man. _ _ _ _ _
I'd run off before I was born.
Mama picked cotton just to raise us [C] kids in the Texas sun.
We grew [G] up in the cotton fields.
So I learned how to work and I learned how to fight.
I learned how to put a bunch of words [C] together as the years rolled by.
I [G] gave him way too cold.
When my sweetheart listened to the songs I played,
She said, I love you honey, but there ain't much [C] money in the serenade.
I need a [G] man with a real job.
[D] Like you back there where I left her.
[C] God knows I still [G] think about her now and then.
[D] But you know these clothes I'm wearing,
[C] Is the kind that shirt tails always [G] flap in the wind. _ _
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_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ I made my music from coast to coast.
And over the water couldn't get no [C] hotter than a dang air froze.
I [G] remember the alley low.
The road was long but the heart is strong.
I was Texas born and raised and [C] Texas is still my home.
[G] Texas is home sweet home.
[D] Yeah, it's right there where the best is.
[C] Smack dab in the heart of [G] Texas.
Thank you man.
[D] Where my songs are always playing.
[C] And them good old Texas gals [G] say, honey where you been? _ _
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_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] Yeah, it's right back where the best [C] is.
Smack dab in the heart [G] of Texas.
Thank you man. _ _ _ _ _ _
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