Waylon Jennings - Ain't Livin' Long Like This guitar chord

Ain’t Livin’ Long Like This

By Waylon Jennings

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I looked for trouble and found it son

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Straight down the barrel of a lawman’s gun

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I try to run but I don’t think I can

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You make one move and you’re a dead man

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Ain’t livin’ long like this

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I can’t live at all like this can I baby

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He slipped the cuffs on behind my back

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Then left me freezing on a steel rail rack

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They got ‘em all in the jailhouse baby

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Ain’t livin’ long like this

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Can’t live at all like this, can I baby

Grew up in Houston off a wayside drive

Son of a carhop in some all-night dive

Dad drove a stock car to an early death

All I remember was a drunk man’s breath

Ain’t livin’ long like this

Can’t live at all like this can I baby

We know the story how the wheel goes ‘round

Don’t let ‘em take you to the man downtown

Can’t sleep at all in the jailhouse baby

Ain’t livin’ long like this

Can’t live at all like this, can I baby

Instrumental

I live for Angel, she’s the roadhouse queen

Make 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

Ain’t livin’ long like this

Can’t live at all like this, can I baby

You know the story ‘bout the jailhouse rock

Go on and do it just don’t get caught

They got ‘em all in the jailhouse, baby

Ain’t livin’ long like this

I can’t live at all like this, can I baby

Instrumental

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