Old 97's – W Tx Teardrops (Guitar)

         C                             G
Well the road maps of West Texas never gave me good advice

    G                                               C
The trains all roll where the roads don't go, now I lay awake at night

     C                                G
Just wondering where the rest is so I hit that iron gate

      G                                       F              C
And I yelled good-bye to that wife of mine, I may be running late

              G                 C
I'm a-rolling on, I'm a-rolling on

                  G                      C
Rolling out past El Paso Texas, where I might have had a home

  F               C
I made my bed, so here I lie

G                      F               C
I'm rolling West Texas teardrops in my eye

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Though I felt a lonesome feeling in Dulce, New Mexico

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I was happier than I'd ever been in my El Paso home

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But I thought about the woman whom I left to roam the land

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And I cried so much it dug a rut they call the Rio Grande

              G                 C
I'm a-rolling on, I'm a-rolling on

                 G                      C
Rolling out past El Paso Texas, where I might have had a home

  F               C
I made my bed, so here I lie

G                      F               C
I'm rolling West Texas teardrops in my eye

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And my destination is written upon my feet

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And the stars above are about the only company I keep

   C                 F
So raise my pass and take my seat

G                       F              G
I'm rolling fast with a teardrop on my cheek

     C                                 G
So I guess there'll be no family, so I guess there'll be no wife

      G                                    C
Gonna roll away on an old steel dray, it's gonna be my life

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And the road maps I been reading, I never came to figure out

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All I know is I'd explode by any other route

              G                 C
I'm a-rolling on, I'm a-rolling on

                 G                      C
Rolling out past El Paso Texas, where I might have had a home

  F               C
I made my bed, so here I lie

G                      F               C
I'm rolling West Texas teardrops in my eye

              G                 C
I'm a-rolling on, I'm a-rolling on

                 G                      C
Rolling out past El Paso Texas, where I might have had a home

  F               C
I made my bed, so here I lie

G                      F               C
I'm rolling West Texas teardrops in my eye

    G                      F               C
And I'm rolling West Texas teardrops in my eye

    G                      F               C
And I'm rolling West Texas teardrops in my eye