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Artist - Chris Rea
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Song - Texas
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Album - Road To Hell
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Tabbed By - Ayreon77
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Tuning = Standard
VERSE 1
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A
Warm winds blowing
D
Heating blue sky
F#m F
And a road that goes forever
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VERSE 2
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A
Been thinking 'bout it lately
Been watching some TV
Em
Been looking all around me
A
At what has come to be
D
Been talking to my neighbor
And he agrees with me
F
G A
It's all gone crazy
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CHORUS
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A
Well my wife returns from taking
My little girl to school
A
She's got beads of perspiration
As she tries to keep her cool
D
She says that mess it don't get no better
There's gonna come a day
F
Someone's gonna get killed out there
G A
And I turn to her and say Texas
She says what?
Em
I said Texas
A
She says what?
D
They've got big long road out there
F G
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VERSE 3
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A
Warm winds blowing
Em
Heating blue sky
D F
And a road that goes forever
G A
I'm going to Texas
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02:03
SLIDE
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BRIDGE
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A
We got to get out of here
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We got to get out of here
F G
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02:41
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RIFF 1 no slide - Play this with chorus below
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CHORUS
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A
Well I got a little brother
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Several meters high
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Em
Yea his built just like a quarterback
A
And he swears he'll testify
e|---s---12---s------|
B|-1214----1214----|
G|----------------14-|
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D
He says he's been to Texas
And that's the only place to be
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A|------------------------------|
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F
Big stakes, big girls, no trouble here
G
That's the place for me
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A
I'm going to Texas, yea yeaaaa
s
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F
G A
Oh I'm going to Texas, Yeaa yea
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F
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G A
I'm going to Texas
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D
A
Watch me walking
D
A
Watch me walking
D
A
Watch me walking
Yea yeaaaaa
03:47 s s s s
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04:15 s
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fade out..........................................................................
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ENJOY.......