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My Sportin' Life easy guitar chords by 
John Kay
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Verse 1
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Words and music by John Kay
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Though I can't show you
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the years of my life
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That I spend on the road
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to freedom
Don't let it throw you,
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I know of your strife
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G
I know what it's like to roam
I sang 'em a glad song,
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played 'em a sad song
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G
C
Sang 'em the whole night long
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D
Just for a dollar or what they
could offer
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G
To somebody's ramblin' boy
Verse 2
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When the fun was done,
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I would pack my bags and I was gone
Though the women were kind there was
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G
nothing to bind me to one
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Bb
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'Til somebody changed
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Bb
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my rough and rowdy ways
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Bb
G
Somebody changed my
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Bb
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ole carousing days
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Oh when I was a young boy
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Bb
Gm
I learned to survive
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C
Bb
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C
'Til somebody came and stayed
Interlude 1
my sportin' life
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Dm
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Verse 3
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I lived in the barrooms
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the juke joints and gin mills
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I worked any dive in town
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Never to proud to pass my hat around
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In every place I found
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I'll sing you a glad song,
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play you a sad song
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C
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Sing 'em the whole night long
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Just for a dollar or what
you can offer
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G
To somebody's ramblin' boy
Verse 4
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There were times when lonely
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was the only feeling left in me
Or when the cold and the rain made it
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hard on a man to be free
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Bb
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'Till somebody changed
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Bb
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my tough and hungry days
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Somebody changed my rough
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and rowdy ways
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Now I don't really care no more
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Bb
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'bout nickels and a dime
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Bb
G
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The one I love is all I need to help
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me spend my time
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G
C
Somebody came and rolled
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away my stone
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Bb
Gm
Somebody came,
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C
Bb
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and she made me feel at home
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Bb
G
C
Somebody changed my rough
Bb
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and rowdy ways
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C
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Somebody changed my ole carousing days
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C
Oh when I was young boy I learned
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to stay alive
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G
C
'Til somebody came and stayed my sportin'
life
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Dm
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C
Verse 5
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I'll sing you a glad song,
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play you a sad song
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G
C
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Sing 'em the whole night long
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C
G
D
C
G
Just for a
dollar
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or what you can offer
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To somebody's ramblin'
boy
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Verse 6
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© 1973 Black Leather Music,
C
Inc. (BMI)
Outro 1
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D
C
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