Work chords by Ron Pope

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Carhart
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jacket on 5: 30 AM
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G 
Feeling like the ace of spades
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Fifteen years old, work till
the sun comes
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Then I'm off to school again
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C 
Working my back as a young man
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F 
Taught me I'd rather work my mind
C 
So we'd cop a little smoke
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And crack a couple jokes
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Just trying to learn to survive
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Verse 2
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I wanted to work to live
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No not just live to work
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I had a pain deep in my bones
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beneath my T- shirt
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Was a young man singin'
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an old man's song
Am 
G 
F 
Payin' with my last dimes
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G 
But working to live beats living to work
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Anytime

Interlude 1

Verse 3
C 
I had a teacher
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She told my mother that she
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G 
better find me a trade
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Because boys like me well we all grow up
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G 
C 
To be long term guests  of the state
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C 
Now I worked hard because I had to
Am 
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I never  found much luck
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C 
Till' I built my world
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Round' a Georgia girl
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G 
Who told me that I was enough
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Verse 4
F 
I wanted to work to live
C 
No not just live to work
F 
I had a pain deep in my bones
G 
beneath my t- shirt
C 
Was a young man singing
F 
an old man's song
Am 
G 
F 
Paying with my last dimes
C 
G 
But working to live beats living to work
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Anytime

Interlude 2

Verse 5
C 
F 
Sometimes at night I wake with a shiver
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Sweat soaking clean through my sheets
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Then I remember I am who I am
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Not who they said I would be
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And I wasn't born with noth
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in'
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F 
Cept' a voice and common sense
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Maybe that's why I took
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off runnin'
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G 
The first chance that I had
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Verse 6
F 
I wanted to work to live
C 
No not just live to work
F 
I had a pain deep in my bones
G 
beneath my T- shirt
C 
F 
Was a young man singing
an old man's song
Am 
G 
F 
Paying with my last dimes
C 
G 
But working to live beats living to work
F 
Anytime
Am 
G 
Oh working to live beats living to work
Anytime