I Aint Living Long Like This

Song: I Ain't Living Long Like This (by Rodney Crowell) Source: From Emmylou Harris "Quarter Moon In A Ten Cents Down" Warner Brothers Records 1978 Tessa Publishing Company(BMI) Albert Lee guitar Glen D Hardin piano Hank Devito steel guitar Emory Gordy bass John Ware drums Rodney Crowell guitar Dianne Brooks vocals C You looked for trouble and you found it son Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun C You tried to run but I don't think you can C You make one move and you're a dead man friend F Ain't living long like this C Can't live at all like this can I baby G He slipped the handcuffs on behind your back And left me freezing on a steel rail track F They got'em all in the jailhouse baby C I Ain't living long like this C Grew up in Houston off the wayside drive Son of a carhop in some all night dives Dad drove a stock car to an early death All I remember was a drunk man's breath F I Ain't living long like this C Can't live at all like this can I baby G You know the story how the wheel goes 'round Don't let them take you to the man downtown F They got ie all in the jailhouse baby C Ain't living long like this Can't live at all like this can i baby SOLO C You live with Angel she's a roadhouse queen C Makes Texas Ruby look like Sandra Dee C You want to love her but you don't know how Your at the bottom in the jailhouse now F Ain't living long like this C Can't live at all like this can I baby G You know the story about the jailhouse rock Go on and do it but just don't get caught F Can't sleep at all in the jailhouse baby C Ain't living long like this Can't live at all like this can i baby Ain't living long like this F C F C F C and fade out