Intro: G5 C F F
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Do you know why the trees bend at the West Texas border?
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Do you know why they bend and sway and twine?
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The trees bend because of the wind across that lonesome border
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The trees bend because of the wind almost all the time
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Have you seen my Caroline up in Amarillo?
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Have you seen my Caroline the one that I call mine?
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Well, if you see my Caroline with her hair of yellow
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If you see my Caroline tell her I'm doin' fine
(steel guitar solo one time around)
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She is to me like the breeze that blows from Corpus Christi
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She is to me like the breeze that blows up from the sea
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Now if she is like the breeze that blows from Corpus Christi
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Then I must be like the trees 'cause Caroline blows through me
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Do you know why the trees bend at the West Texas border?
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Do you know why they bend and sway and twine?
F Dm Bb F
The trees bend because of the wind across that lonesome border
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The trees bend because of the wind almost all the time
outro:
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The trees bend because of the wind almost all the time