All My Ex's Live in Texas

"All My Ex's Live in Texas"
Single by George Strait
from the album Ocean Front Property
B-side"I'm All Behind You Now"
ReleasedApril 10, 1987
RecordedSeptember 23, 1986
Genre
Length3:22
LabelMCA 53087
Songwriter(s)Sanger D. Shafer
Lyndia J. Shafer [3]
Producer(s)Jimmy Bowen, George Strait
George Strait singles chronology
"Ocean Front Property"
(1986)
"All My Ex's Live in Texas"
(1987)
"Am I Blue"
(1987)

"All My Ex's Live in Texas" is a song written by Sanger D. Shafer and Lyndia J. Shafer, and recorded by American country music singer George Strait. It was released in April 1987 as the second single from Strait's album Ocean Front Property. "All My Ex's Live In Texas" was nominated for Best Male Country Vocal Performance at the 1988 Grammy Awards.

A version of the song recorded by its co-author Sanger D. Shafer appeared in the film Road House, the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas[4] and TV show Ash vs Evil Dead. Rapper Drake mentions the song in his single "HYFR".

The song "Tip Your Bartender" by New York post-hardcore band Glassjaw, contains the lyric: "All my ex's live with hexes."

The format of the song is that of a list song.

  1. ^ "George Strait, Troubadour". Country Universe. December 3, 2008. Retrieved October 26, 2023.
  2. ^ Weiner, Natalie (May 18, 2022). "Best George Strait Songs: 20 Country Anthems". uDiscoverMusic. Retrieved November 19, 2022.
  3. ^ "All My Ex's Live in Texas". BMI Repertoire. BMI.
  4. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Box Set) - Original Game Soundtrack". AllMusic. Retrieved May 28, 2008.