Better Things In Life chords by Jerry Reed

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Verse 1
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 (E flat major) night I slept in a
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 (A flat major) hobo camp down  (G major) south of Cairo, Geor (C major) gia
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About five  (F major) miles out of town  (B flat major) by
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the railroad track (E flat major)  (C major)  (F major) 
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 (B flat major) Well I  (E flat major) eat their stew,
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I  (A flat major) drunk their brew and I
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smoked  (G major) their stale to (C major) bacco
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I stood up  (F major) to their open fire
and I warmed my back
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 (B flat major) 

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Verse 2
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And in the meantime  (E flat major) me  and this one
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par (A flat major) ticular hobo we struck  (G major) 
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up a conversation  (C major) 
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And I'm sure  (F major) he must have
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 (B flat major) noticed my sur (E flat major) prise
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 (C major)  (F major) When  (B flat major) he  told me  (E flat major) how
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his old man died  (A flat major) 
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and left him sole heir  (G major) to a million dol (C major) lars
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And how he  (F major) gave it all away and
he chose a hobo's life
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 (B flat major) 

Verse 3
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Because he said son,  (E flat major) 
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there's better things in life  (C major) 
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Well there's some  (F major) things gold
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and silver  (B flat major) just can't buy  (E flat major)  (C major) 
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 (F major) He said boy  (B flat major) I'd rather  (E flat major) sleep
here on this dry creek bed
With a wrinkled up overcoat
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to  (C major) pillow my head
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Than  (F major) fight that livin' high
up on the hog
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 (B flat major) Tryin' to keep ahead till my
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head's in a fog  (E flat major) 
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Son, there's  (A flat major) better things in life  (G major) than
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growing ulcers  (C major) over money  (F major) 
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There's  (B flat major) better things in life!  (E flat major)  (C major) 

Verse 4
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Bb 
 (F major) Sing  (B flat major) children, hey!
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C 
 (E flat major) (Da da da da da da da da...) Yeah, hey!  (C major) 
(Da da da da da da da da...)
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Bb 
 (F major) Yeah!  (B flat major) 
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(Da da da da da da da da...)  (E flat major)  (C major) 

Verse 5
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Sing  (C major)  (F major) now  (B flat major) children, hey!
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C 
 (E flat major) (Da da da da da da  (C major) da da...)
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(Da da da da da da da da...)  (F major) 
(Da da da da da da da da...)
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Eb 
 (B flat major)  (E flat major) 

Verse 6
Well I left Georgia,
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 (A flat major) got me a job in  (G major) Opelika, Alabama  (C major) 
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Workin' for a  (F major) man who drove me hard  (B flat major) 
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and he paid me cheap,  (E flat major) yes he  (C major) did  (F major) 
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 (B flat major) Well I  (E flat major) watched this poor fool  (A flat major) work so
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hard tryin' to  (G major) make that almighty dollar  (C major) 
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That he had to  (F major) live on pills from a
drugstore down the street
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 (B flat major) 

Verse 7
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Now like last spring  (E flat major) when
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income tax  (A flat major) came
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due he just sat  (G major) around for
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days and wor (C major) ried
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Losing good sleep  (F major) tryin'
to figure how
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to cheat  (B flat major) on the government,  (E flat major) yes he  (C major) did
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He  (F major) worked so  (B flat major) hard that
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his  (E flat major) nerves collapsed
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and  (A flat major) he  woke up inside  (G major) Central
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State Hospit (C major) al
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And on his taxes  (F major) he got back fourteen
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dollars and some few cent (B flat major) s
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So let me tell  (E flat major) you friends,

Verse 8
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 (E flat major) 
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there's better things in life  (C major) 
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There's some  (F major) things gold and
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sil (B flat major) ver just can't buy  (E flat major)  (C major) 
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 (F major) Because  (B flat major) now he's  (E flat major) laying out
flat on his back on the bed
His nerves all shot and
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 (F major) he's out  (C major) of his head
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That  (F major) hospital bill,
that'll make him holler!
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When he  (B flat major) sees what he spent tryin'
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to save himself a dollar  (E flat major) 
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Son, there's  (A flat major) better things in life  (G major) than
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growing  (C major) squirrelly over money  (F major) 
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There's  (B flat major) better things in life  (E flat major)  (C major) 

Verse 9

Sing children, sing!

(Da da da da da da da da...) Yeah, hey!

(Da da da da da da da da...) Yeah, yeah!

(Da da da da da da da da...)

Verse 10
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One more time with feel (F major) ing, sing!  (E flat major) 
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(Da da da da da da da da...) Yeah, hey!  (C major) 
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(Da da da da da da da da...)  (F major) Yeah!
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(Da da  (B flat major) da  da da da da da...)