I Ain't Living Long Like This chords by Rodney Crowell, Waylon Jennings
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I look for trouble and I found
it son
Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun
I tried to run but I don't think I can
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You make one move and you're a dead man,
friend
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Ain't living long like this
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Ain't living long like this, can I, baby?
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Verse 2
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He slipped the handcuffs
on behind my back
Then left me reeling on a steel reel rack
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They got 'em all in the jailhouse, baby
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Ain't living long like this
Verse 3
Ain't living long like this, can I, baby?
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Grew up in Houston off the wayside drives
Son of a carhop and some all night dives
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Dad drove a stock car to
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an early death
Gm
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All I remember was a
drunk man's breath
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Ain't living long like this
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Can't live at all like this, can I, baby?
Verse 4
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We know the story how the
wheel goes 'round
Don't let them take you to
the man down town
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Can't sleep at all in a jailhouse, baby
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Ain't living long like this
Can't live at all like this,
Interlude 1
can I, baby?
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Verse 5
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I live with Angel, she's a roadhouse
queen
Makes Texas Ruby look like Sandra Dee
I want to love her but I don't know how
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I'm at the bottom in
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the jailhouse now
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Ain't living long like this
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Ain't living long like this, can I, baby?
Verse 6
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You know the story about
the jailhouse rock
Don't want to do it but just
don't get caught
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They got 'em all in the jailhouse, baby
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Ain't living long like this, no
Can't live at all like this, can I,
Outro 1
baby?
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I Ain't Living Long Like This
Rodney Crowell, Waylon Jennings
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