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Better Things In Life chords by 
Jerry Reed 
N/A•
Key: C major•BPM: 171
Intro 1
Bb
Eb
C
F
Bb
Eb
C
F
Bb
Last
Verse 1
Eb
night I slept in a
Ab
G
C
hobo camp down south of Cairo, Georgia
F
Bb
About five miles out of town by
Eb
C
F
the railroad track
Bb
Eb
Well I eat their stew,
Ab
I drunk their brew and I
G
C
smoked their stale tobacco
F
I stood up to their open fire
and I warmed my back
Bb
Verse 2
Eb
And in the meantime me and this one
Ab
G
particular hobo we struck
C
up a conversation
F
And I'm sure he must have
Bb
Eb
noticed my surprise
C
F
Bb
Eb
When he told me how
Ab
his old man died
G
C
and left him sole heir to a million dollars
F
And how he gave it all away and
he chose a hobo's life
Bb
Verse 3
Eb
Because he said son,
C
there's better things in life
F
Well there's some things gold
Bb
Eb
C
and silver just can't buy
F
Bb
Eb
He said boy I'd rather sleep
here on this dry creek bed
With a wrinkled up overcoat
C
to pillow my head
F
Than fight that livin' high
up on the hog
Bb
Tryin' to keep ahead till my
Eb
head's in a fog
Ab
G
Son, there's better things in life than
C
F
growing ulcers over money
Bb
Eb
C
There's better things in life!
Verse 4
F
Bb
Sing children, hey!
Eb
C
(Da da da da da da da da...) Yeah, hey!
(Da da da da da da da da...)
F
Bb
Yeah!
Eb
C
(Da da da da da da da da...)
Verse 5
C
F
Bb
Sing now children, hey!
Eb
C
(Da da da da da da da da...)
F
(Da da da da da da da da...)
(Da da da da da da da da...)
Bb
Eb
Verse 6
Well I left Georgia,
Ab
G
C
got me a job in Opelika, Alabama
F
Bb
Workin' for a man who drove me hard
Eb
C
F
and he paid me cheap, yes he did
Bb
Eb
Ab
Well I watched this poor fool work so
G
C
hard tryin' to make that almighty dollar
F
That he had to live on pills from a
drugstore down the street
Bb
Verse 7
Eb
Now like last spring when
Ab
income tax came
G
due he just sat around for
C
days and worried
F
Losing good sleep tryin'
to figure how
Bb
Eb
C
to cheat on the government, yes he did
F
Bb
He worked so hard that
Eb
his nerves collapsed
Ab
G
and he woke up inside Central
C
State Hospital
F
And on his taxes he got back fourteen
Bb
dollars and some few cents
Eb
So let me tell you friends,
Verse 8
Eb
C
there's better things in life
F
There's some things gold and
Bb
Eb
C
sil ver just can't buy
F
Bb
Eb
Because now he's laying out
flat on his back on the bed
His nerves all shot and
F
C
he's out of his head
F
That hospital bill,
that'll make him holler!
Bb
When he sees what he spent tryin'
Eb
to save himself a dollar
Ab
G
Son, there's better things in life than
C
F
growing squirrelly over money
Bb
Eb
C
There's better things in life
Verse 9
F
Bb
Eb
Sing children, sing!
C
(Da da da da da da da da...) Yeah, hey!
F
(Da da da da da da da da...) Yeah, yeah!
Bb
Eb
(Da da da da da da da da...)
Verse 10
F
Eb
One more time with feeling, sing!
C
(Da da da da da da da da...) Yeah, hey!
F
(Da da da da da da da da...) Yeah!
Bb
(Da da da da da da da da...)
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