Texas In My Rearview Mirror

By Mac Davis Tabbed By Larry Mofle [email protected] The verses are sung with the intro tab I did being played along to it. I wrote the chords over where they change only to make it easier to start getting into the song but finger picking the intro throughout the song will sound exactly right. I was just 15 and out of control, lost to James Dean and rock and roll I knew down deep in my country soul that I had to get away Hollywood was a lady in red that danced in my dreams as I tossed in bed I knew I'd wind up in jail or dead if I have to stay Chorus 1: And I thought happiness was Lubbock, Texas In my rearview mirror (walk down) My mama kept callin' me home but I just did not want to hear her And the vision was getting clearer in my dreams So I lit out one night in June, stoned on the glow of a Texas moon Hummin' an old Buddy Holly tune called Peggy Sue With my favorite jeans and a cheap guitar, I ran off chasin' a distant star If Buddy Holly could make it that far, I figured I could too Chorus 2: And I thought happiness was Lubbock, Texas In my rearview mirror My mama kept callin' me home but I just did not want to hear her And the vision was getting clearer in my dreams Bridge: But the Hollywood moon didn't smile the same old smile that I'd grown up with The lady in red just wanted my last dime And I cried myself to sleep at night, too dumb to run, too scared to fight And too proud to admit it at the time So I got me some gigs on Saturday nights, not much more than orchestrated fights I'd come home drunk and I'd try to write but the words came out wrong Hellbent and bound for a wasted view, too much gin and not enough Vermouth And no one to teach me how to seek the truth before I put it in the song Chorus 3: I still thought happiness was Lubbock, Texas In my rearview mirror My mama kept callin' me home but I just could not, would not hear her And the vision was getting clearer in my dreams I thank god each and every day for giving me the music and the words to say I'd-a never made it any other way, He was my only friend And now I sleep a little better at night and when I look in the mirror in the morning light The man I see was both wrong and right, he's goin' home again Chorus 4: I guess happiness was Lubbock, Texas In my rearview mirror But now happiness is Lubbock, Texas Growin' nearer and dearer And the vision is gettin' clearer in my dreams And I think I fin'lly know just what it means And when I die, you can bury me in Lubbock, Texas'in my jeans