********************* PEOPLE UP IN TEXAS *********************
written and performed by Waylon Jennings.

Capo on the 1st fret.

Verse 1:
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To the people up in Texas,it's the nearest thing to Heaven here on earth
     D                                                              G
The lifestyle out in Texas is just go on out and live for all it's worth
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Where the men are all men and the ladies there are born with ways to please
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And the people up in Texas think that the rest of all the world is over seas

Verse 2:
          C/G/                               G/
You don't need no one to tell you when you cross that Texas line
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The air starts smelling sweeter and the water tastes like wine
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The sun is always shining so it's seldom ever cold
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People just grow up there,never old

Verse 2.

Verse 1 bis:
G                                                                    C/G
To the people up in Texas,it's the nearest thing to Heaven here on earth
     D                                                              G 
The lifestyle out in Texas is just go on out and live for all it's worth
                                                                    C/G  
Where the men are all men and the ladies there are born with ways to please
         G                                 D                             G
And the people up in Texas think that the rest of all the world is over seas
                                       D                             G
Yeah,the people up in Texas think the rest of all the world is over seas