High Cost Of Living original guitar chords by
Jamey Johnson

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Key: C major

Intro 1

C

C

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Verse 1
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I was just a normal guy
Life was just a nine to five
G G 
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With bills and pressure piled up to the sky
She never asked, she knew I'd been
Hangin' with my wilder friends
C C 
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Looking for some other way to fly

Verse 2
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And three days straight was no big feat
Could get by with no food or sleep
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C/E C/E 
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Dm Dm 
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And crazy was was becoming my new norm
C C 
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I'd pass out on the bedroom floor
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C C 
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Sleep right through the calm before the storm
Bbsus2 Bbsus2 
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Chorus 1
F F 
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life was just an old routine
G G 
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Every day the same damn thing
C C 
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Bbsus2 Bbsus2 
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I couldn't even tell      I was alive
C C 
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I tell you, the high cost of livin'
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C C 
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Ain't nothing like the cost of livin' high

Verse 3
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That Southern Baptist parking lot
Is where I'd go to smoke my pot
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Sit there in my pickup truck and pray
Staring at that giant cross
Just reminded me that I was lost
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And it just never seemed to point the way

Verse 4
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As soon as Jesus turned his back
I'd find my way across the track
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C/E C/E 
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Dm Dm 
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Lookin' just to score another deal
C C 
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With my back against that damn eight ball
G G 
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C C 
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I didn't have to think or talk or feel
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Chorus 2
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life was just an old routine
G G 
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Every day the same damn thing
C C 
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Bbsus2 Bbsus2 
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F F 
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I couldn't even tell      I was alive
C C 
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I tell you, the high cost of livin'
G G 
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C C 
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Bb Bb 
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Ain't nothing like the cost of livin' high
C C 
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C C 
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Verse 5
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My whole life went through my head
Layin' in that motel bed
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Watchin' as the cops kicked in the door
I had a job and a piece of land
My sweet wife was my best friend
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But I traded that for cocaine and a whore

Verse 6
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With my new found sobriety
I've got the time to sit and think
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C/E C/E 
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Dm Dm 
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Of all the things I had   and threw away
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This prison is much colder than
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That one that I was locked up in,
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just yesterday
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Chorus 3
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life is just an old routine
G G 
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Every day the same damn thing
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Bbsus2 Bbsus2 
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F F 
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Hell I  can't even tell      if I'm alive
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I tell you, the high cost of livin'
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C C 
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Ain't nothing like the cost of livin' high
I tell you, the high cost of livin'
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C C 
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Bb Bb 
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It ain't nothing like the cost of livin' high
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Bb Bb 
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Solo 1
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G G 
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C C 
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F F 
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C C 
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G G 
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C C 
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F F 
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G G 
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G G 
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F F 
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F F 
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Outro 1

F

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D7

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C/G

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Bbsus2
Bb
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Chords

C
G
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C/E
Dm
Bbsus2
Bb
D7
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