Lyrics of
All My Exs Live In Texas

All My Exs Live in Texas is a song by George Strait, co-written by Sanger D. Shafer and Lyndia J. Shafer. It was released in April 1987 as the second single from the album Ocean Front Property. The song became a hit, reaching the top of the country music charts in the United States. The lyrics jokingly suggest that the narrator has so many exes in Texas that he decides to move to Tennessee. The song was inspired by co-writer Sanger D. Shafers own ... experiences with his past relationships. See more [+]

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All my Ex's live in Texas
And Texas is the place I'd really love to be
But all my Ex's live in Texas
And that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee

Rosanna's down in Texarkana, wanted me to push her broom
Sweet Eileen's in Abilene, she forgot I hung the moon
And Allison's in Galveston, somehow lost her sanity
And Dimples, who now lives in Temple's got the law lookin' for me

All my Ex's live in Texas
And Texas is the place I'd really love to be
But all my Ex's live in Texas
And that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee

I remember that ole Frio River where I learned to swim
But it brings to mind another time where I wore my welcome thin
By Transcendental Meditation I go there each night
But I always come back to myself, long before daylight

All my Ex's live in Texas
And Texas is the place I'd really love to be
But all my Ex's live in Texas
Therefore I reside in Tennessee

Some folks think I'm hidin',
It's been rumored that I died
But I'm alive and well in Tennessee