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　　All my ex's live in Texas

　　And Texas is a place I'd dearly 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 Texarcana; wanted me to push her broom

　　And sweet Ilene's in Abilene; she forgot I hung the moon

　　And Allison 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 a place I'd dearly love to be

　　But all my ex's live in Texas

　　And that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee

　　I remember that old Frio river where I learned to swim

　　And it brings to mind another time where I wore my welcome thin

　　My 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 a place I'd dearly love to be

　　But all my ex's live in Texas

　　And that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee

　　Some folks think I'm hidin'

　　It's been rumored that I died

　　But I'm alive and well in Tennessee