I Ain't Living Long Like This

	  		
(verse 1)   
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,
  
  
  
(verse 2)  
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 

  
  
(lead chords - - F - C - F - C - F - C)  
  
  
(bridge)  
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 

  
  
Outro - F - C - F - C - F - C