Summer Celebration 2024
All My Exes Live in Texas
by Sanger Shafer and Lyndia J. Shafer;
changes by Debra Milligan
All my exes live in Texas
and Texas is the place
I’d dearly love to be
But all my exes live in Texas
That’s why I hang my hat
in Californie.
Bobby Bandana’s down in Texarkana
He wanted me to push his broom
Sweet Joey in Abilene
forgot that I hung the moon
And Gaston,
who’s in Galveston,
Somehow lost his sanity
Then there’s Samuel
who lives in Temple:
He’s got the law looking for me.
All my exes live in Texas
and Texas is the place I’d dearly love
to be
But all my exes live in Texas
That’s why I hang my hat in Californie.
I remember that old Brazos River
where I learned to swim
but that brings to mind
another time
when my beau wore his welcome thin.
By transcendental meditation
I go there each night
But I always come back to myself
Long before daylight.
All my exes live in Texas
and Texas is the place I’d dearly love
to be
But all my exes live in Texas
Therefore I reside in Californie.
Mr. Ramone in San Antone
Tried to sue me for love
Pretty Boy Nicky in Corpus Christi
He cussed me to the stars above
Two-Timing Pete in Mesquite
gave me a case of ice-cold feet
And Marcus out in Lubbock
stole all my hard-owned bucks.
All my exes live in Texas
and Texas is the place
I’d really love to be
But all my exes live in Texas
That’s why I hang my hat
in Californie.
Some men think I’m in hiding
Several rumored that I died
But I’m alive and well
in Californie.