Texas Trilogy Chords

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Texas Trilogy by Lyle Lovett is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of Dm. It uses the chords Dm, Em, F, G, A, D7, G7, A/G, A/F and A/E. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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VERSE 1
 
Dm           Em          F            Em 
Six o'clock silence of a new day beginning 
Dm              G           A 
Is heard in the small Texas town 
Dm                 Em          F          Em 
Like a signal from nowhere the people who live there 
Dm                  G       A 
Are up and they're moving around 


               D7                               G7 
'Cause there's bacon to fry and there's biscuits to bake 
D7                               G7 
On the stove that the Salvation Army won't take 
D7                                                               G7 
And you open the windows and you turn on the fan 
            A           A/G           A/F          A/E 
'Cause it's hotter than hell when the sun hits the land 



VERSE 2
 
Walter and Fanny, well they own the grocery 
That sells most all that you need 
They've been up and working since early this morning 
They've got the whole village to feed 
They put out fresh eggs, throw bad ones away 
That rotted because of the heat yesterday 
The store's all dark so you can't see the flies 
That settle on round steak and last Monday's pies 

VERSE 3
 
Sleepy Hill's Drugstore and the cafe they're open 
The coffee is bubbling hot 
And all the folks that ain't working gonna sit there 'till sundown 
And talk about what they ain't got 
Someone just threw a clutch in the old pickup truck 
It seems like they been riding on a streak of bad luck 
The doctors bills came and the well has gone dry 
Seems their grown kids don't care whether they live or die

CODA: G 
 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante