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All My Exes Live in Texas

Summer Celebration 2024



All My Exes Live in Texas

by Sanger Shafer and Lyndia J. Shafer;

changes by Debra Milligan


All my exes live in Texas

and Texas is the place

 

I’d dearly love to be

 

But all my exes live in Texas

 

That’s why I hang my hat

in Californie.

 

Bobby Bandana’s down in Texarkana

He wanted me to push his broom

 

Sweet Joey in Abilene

forgot that I hung the moon

 

And Gaston,

who’s in Galveston,


Somehow lost his sanity

 

Then there’s Samuel

who lives in Temple:

 

He’s got the law looking for me.

 

All my exes live in Texas

and Texas is the place I’d dearly love

to be

 

But all my exes live in Texas

That’s why I hang my hat in Californie.

 

I remember that old Brazos River

where I learned to swim

but that brings to mind

 

another time

 

when my beau wore his welcome thin.


By transcendental meditation

I go there each night

 

But I always come back to myself

 

Long before daylight.

 

All my exes live in Texas

and Texas is the place I’d dearly love

to be

 

But all my exes live in Texas

 

Therefore I reside in Californie.

 

Mr. Ramone in San Antone

Tried to sue me for love

 

Pretty Boy Nicky in Corpus Christi

He cussed me to the stars above

 

Two-Timing Pete in Mesquite

gave me a case of ice-cold feet



And Marcus out in Lubbock

stole all my hard-owned bucks.

 

All my exes live in Texas

and Texas is the place

 

I’d really love to be

 

But all my exes live in Texas

 

That’s why I hang my hat

in Californie.

 

Some men think I’m in hiding

 

Several rumored that I died

 

But I’m alive and well

in Californie.

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