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Version 1
            [Chorus]
  D                                           Bm
Lately I’ve been thinking I could leave this town
F#m                       A
Cut back on my drinking, stop this running round
   D                                               Bm
Playing songs 'til after midnight, staying up 'til dawn
          F#m                                A
There’s something in the dust and wind that keeps me hanging on
        G                A               D               G
And I never thought I’d live to see the day I’d say goodbye
          Bm                  A          D
I ain’t crying, that’s west Texas in my eye
[Verse]
  D                                              Bm
I’ll be your blue eyed bandit if you’ll be my renegade
   F#m                              A
I count a thousand tumbleweeds roll by me everyday
     D                                              Bm
I’d like to grow a rose and stow it in that desert sage
         F#m                         A
Like a message in a bottle floating down the open plains
            G       A          D               G
Where the Llano Estacado rises up to meet the sky
          Bm                 A          D
I ain’t crying that’s west Texas in my eye
[Verse]
      D                                                Bm
I’ve seen the thunderheads descend and rip into the ground
      F#m                              A
The twisted hand of heaven spreading terror all around
   D                                                   Bm
Sending farmers into deeper debt and ranchers to the grave
        F#m                              A
Where towers mark the end of time with slowly spinning blades
           G           A               D          G
'Til the water table falls below the reach of humankind
          Bm                 A          D
I ain’t crying that’s west Texas in my eye
[Interlude]
Bm A D Bm A D
Bm A D G Bm A D
[Chorus]
  D                                           Bm
Lately I’ve been thinking I could leave this town
F#m                          A
Cut back on my drinking and stop this running round
   D                                                   Bm
Playing songs til after midnight and staying up until dawn
               F#m                                A
But there’s something in the dust and wind that keeps me hanging on
        G                A               D            G
And I never thought I’d live to see the day I said goodbye
           Bm                A          G
I ain’t crying that’s west Texas in my eye
           Bm                A          D
I ain’t crying that’s west Texas in my eye
[Outro] G Bm A D