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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