Memories Of East Texas tab by Michelle Shocked

Intro
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Verse 1
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Memories of East Texas  and pine-green rolling hills

(play same as above)

Covered in the springtime  with golden daffodils

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Rowing on Sandy lake come April, harvesting hay in June

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Sitting by the road watching wild fires burn by an old October moon

Chorus
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I learned to drive on those East Texas red clay backroads

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And I mean to tell you my friend they weren't no easy roads



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You had to watch out for all the curves down by Kelsey Creek

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And detour through the Lindsay's pasture when the waters ran too deep

Verse 2 played the same as verse 1

Memories of East Texas and of Gilmer, county seat of Upshur
Looking back and asking myself ''What the hell did you let them break your spirit for?''
Their lives ran in circles so small, they thought they'd seen it all
And they couldn't make a place for a girl who'd seen the ocean

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Interlude
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Verse 3

But those memories of East Texas and those pine-green rolling hills
Covered in the springtime with wild daffodils
Sitting in those Piney woods, playing my guitar
Thinking back on the roads I'd come, thinking I had not come that far

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Outro
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