Texas Chords by Chris Rea

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_ [G] _ _ Warm [A] winds blowing, _ _ _ [G] heat and blue sky, _
_ [A] _ _ and a road that goes [F] forever.
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Thinking about it lately, been watching some TV, [G] been looking all around me, and what has
come to be.
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Talking to my neighbor, and he agrees with me.
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_ _ _ [G] _ It's all [A] gone crazy.
_ _ _ _ Well my wife returns from taking my little girl to school.
She [Em] got needs and perspiration, and she tries to keep her [A] cool.
She says, unless it don't get no better, there's gonna come a day, [F] someone's gonna get killed
out there, [Em] and I turn to [G] her and say, [A]
Texas.
_ _ She says, what?
I [G] said, Texas.
_ She says, what?
_ [A] They got big long roads out there.
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_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [A] Warm winds blowing, _ _ _ _ [Em] heat and blue sky, _ _ _ _ [A] _
and a road that goes [F] forever.
_ _ _ [G] _ _ I'm going to [A] Texas.
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_ We [B] _ gotta get out of [A] here.
_ _ _ [F] We gotta get out of [A] here.
_ _ _ [B] _ _ [A] _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ Well [A] I got a neighbor, gonna several meters high.
Yeah, [Em] he's built just like a quarter by me, and he swears he'll testify.
[A] He says he's been to Texas, [D] and that's the only place [C] to be.
Big stakes, big guns, no trouble [G] here, that's the place for me.
[A] I'm going to Texas.
_ _ _ Yeah, yeah.
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_ _ _ [G] _ I'm going [A] to Texas.
_ _ Yeah, yeah.
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_ _ _ [G] _ _ I'm going [A] to Texas. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] Watch [D] _ _ [A] me [G] walkin'.
[A] _ [G] _ [D] _ [C] [A] Watch me walkin'.
_ _ _ Watch me _ walkin'. [Em] _ [D] Yeah, yeah. _
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[Em] _ _ I'm _ [F#m] _ _ _
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[G] _ _ going _ [A] _ _
[F#m] to Texas.
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_ [G] _ [F#m] _ [A] _ [D] I'm going to [F#m] Texas. _
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