I Ain't Living Long Like This Tab by
Waylon Jennings

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Key: A major•

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

"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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Can't live at all like this, can I baby?

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He slipped the handcuffs on/ behind my back

Then left me reeling on a steel rail rack

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They got 'em all in the jailhouse, baby

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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 2

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Grew up in Houston off the Wayside Drive

Son of a carhop at some all night dive

Dad drove a stock car to an early death

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?

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You know the story

how the wheel goes 'round

Don't let them take you to the man downtown

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Can't sleep at all in a jailhouse baby

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Ain't living long like this

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Can't live at all like this, can I baby?

Solo 1

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Solo 2

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Verse 3

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I live with Angel, she's a roadhouse queen

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Makes Texas Ruby look like Sandra Dee

I want to love her but I don't know how

I'm at the bottom of the jailhouse now

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Ain't living long like this

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Can't live at all like this, can I baby?

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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

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Can't live at all like this, can I baby?

Solo 3

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Solo 4

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Solo 5

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Solo 6

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Solo 7

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Solo 8

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