Chords for Radney Foster, Texas in 1880

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_ _ _ _ _ When I was 20 years old, [E] I woke my mother [F] and my daddy up in the middle of the night
[Db] and I said, Mama, Daddy, I've got something that's very heavy on my heart and I need to tell you.
[N] I said, oh, good Lord, what is [Bb] it?
[Eb] And she chides me.
[N] You guys are fighting all day. _ _ _ _ _ _
Another message.
And I [E] said, [G] I think God wants me to [Eb] drop out of college [N] so I can get a singing song.
And I don't really think my dad's full of attention until that moment.
He sat bolt upright in bed.
[E] He was shooting sleep off and I can see the writing on that writing right there.
I'm grateful. _
_ [B] _ [Ab] Son, I've known God long. _ _
And I don't blame him on any son of mine.
God's been saying it to me.
But I was going to [G] school up at 20 at one [Eb] point.
And they let me take a year off from school to come up here.
So on my [G] way out of town, my [D] mother's best friend had tried to talk me out of work.
They couldn't talk me out of it.
[Eb] She begged me if I answered her.
[C] I said, Radney, she said, you know, that music business is just like rodeo.
It'll [D] get in your blood and you can't get it out.
She should have known because she had three [Gb] kids who were home-born stragglers all the [Ebm] way from Montana to Texas and Maricopa.
[G] And I [D] said, well, I'll be careful, Sarah.
On my way out [Eb] of town, I wrote the first verse of this song.
[D] I was in my school.
I was seven years old.
But this song, this hand, taught me.
Walk to the tree.
I'm on the floor.
[G] My first record with Bill Lloyd, when I signed to RCA.
_ We [Eb] ate one of my songs and I [D] wrote this song.
I finished this.
I tried to get Bill to push me.
Jack shitted me.
[C] He's been touching me.
_ [G] _ And so I finished it.
[N] Everybody thinks it's about rodeo, but it's really about dreaming.
I hope you dream big as your dreams are in this town.
Work hard, dream hard, and sing along.
I [Em] can _ [G] hear the wind whisper my name.
[Gm] Tell me it's time to get out again.
[D] I was in a chair and a light.
I sit [C] down along those views.
You're heading out of town.
[Bm] It's got to be a day called [G] rodeo.
And the smell of the wind in the midnight [D] show.
It's time to make it.
Time to hit the [C] dirt.
Come on, turn it up.
I'm going to pack my shirt [G] and I'm going to ride _ [C] on the fast.
[C] _ [G] Like a cat [D] on a fly.
[C] _ _
_ [G] Be hungry.
[D] _ _ [C] _ _
_ [G] Like Texas [D] in _ [C] 1880.
Just [G] like Texas [D] in _ [G] 1880.
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [Em] I can hear the Pacific Island song.
[G] The New York City down Santa Don.
[D] Boys are riding through legendary fame.
[C] And let's all go on a ride to sleep.
[Em] I'm getting broken.
I really get to touch.
[G] But I wasn't leaving the thing to a truck.
[D] Out on those nights when glory comes around.
I [C] look at my eyes and it's way too crowded.
[G] _ _
[D] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] Like a cat.
[D] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] Be hungry.
[E] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] Like Texas in 1880.
[C] _ _ Just [G] like Texas [D] in _ [G] 1880.
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_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
Some see [Bm] that purple hanging down the belt.
[C] Ride to the town.
We [G] all do.
Ride [D] on [C] the fast.
_ [G] Like a cat [D] on a fly.
[C] _ _
_ [G] Be hungry.
_ [C] _ _
_ [G] Like Texas [D] in [C] 1880.
_ [G] Just like Texas in _ _ 1880.
_ [C] _ _ [C] _ [Em] Just like Texas.
Just like Texas.
_ [C] _ _ Just [G] like Texas.
Just like Texas.
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Em] Just like Texas.
Just like Texas.
_ [C] _ Just like Texas.
Just like Texas. _
[G] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
[D] Just like Texas.
Just like Texas.
Just like Texas.
Just like Texas.
Just like Texas. _ _
Just like Texas.
Just like Texas.
Just like Texas.
Just like Texas.
Just like Texas. _ _ _