T For Texas by Laurie Klein
Key: EE | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed  |  simplified

E
T for Texas, T for Tennessee
A                        E
T for Texas, T for Tennessee
B7                                              E
T for Thelma, that gal that made a wreck out of me.

Yodeling E B7 E

E
If you don't want me mama, you sure don't have to stall
A                                                  E
If you don't want me mama, you sure don't have to stall
B7                                                    E
Cause I can get more women than a passenger train can haul.

Yodeling E B7 E

E
I'm gonna buy me a pistol just as long as I am tall
A                                              E
I'm gonna buy me a pistol just as long as I am tall
B7                                                    E
I'm gonna shoot poor Thelma, just to see her jump and fall.

Yodeling E B7 E

E
Well, I'm going where the water drinks like cherry wine
A                                            E
I'm going where the water drinks like cherry wine
B7                                       E
Cause this Georgia water tastes like turpentine.

Yodeling E B7 E
E
I'm gonna buy me a shotgun with a long shiny barrel
A                                            E
I'm gonna buy me a shotgun with a long shiny barrel
B7                                              E
I'm gonna shoot that rounder that stole away my gal.

Yodeling E B7 E

E
I'd rather drink muddy water and sleep in a hollow log
A                                                  E
I'd rather drink muddy water and sleep in a hollow log
B7                                                       E
Than to be here in Atlanta, and get treated like a dirty dog