Chords for The Panhandlers - West Texas In My Eye

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_ _ _ Lately I've been thinking that I could [Bm] leave this town
_ _ [F#m] Cut back on my drinking, [A] stop this running around
[D] Playing songs till after midnight, staying [Bm] up till dawn
_ [F#m] There's something in the dust and [A] wind that keeps me hanging on
[G] And I never [A] thought I'd live to [D] see the day I'd [G] say goodbye _
[Bm] I ain't crying, [A] that's West Texas in [D] my eye _
_ _ _ _ I'll be your blue-eyed bandit if you'll be my [Bm] _ renegade
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I count a thousand [A] tumbleweeds roll by me every day
[D] I'd like to grow a rose and stow it in that [Bm] desert sage _
[F#] I like a message in a bottle [A] floating down the open plains
[G] Where the yon-o [A]-es-ta-ca-to [D] rises up to [G] meet the sky
_ [Bm] I ain't crying, that's [A] West Texas in [D] my eye
_ _ _ _ _ I've seen the thunderheads descend and rip into [Bm] the ground _
[F#m] The twisted hand of heaven [A] spreading terror all around
[D] Sending farmers into deeper debt and ranchers to [Bm] the grave
Where [F#m] towers mark the end of time [A] with slowly spinning blades
[G] Till the water [A] table falls below [D] the reach of [G] humankind
I [Bm] ain't crying, that's [A] West Texas in [D] my eye
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_ _ _ Lately I've been thinking I could leave [Bm] this town
_ _ [F#m] Cut back on my drinking, [A] stop this running around
[D] Playing songs till after midnight, staying [A] up [Bm] till dawn
But [F#m] there's something in the dust and [A] wind that keeps me hanging on
[G] And I never thought [A] I'd live to see [D] the day I say [G] goodbye _
[Bm] I ain't crying, that's [A] West Texas in [G] my eye _
[Bm] I ain't crying, [A] that's West Texas in [D] my eye
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