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I Ain't Living Long Like This

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Page type: lyric reference Artist: Rodney Crowell Canonical path: /rodney-crowell/i-ain-t-living-long-like-this Related lyric paths: 6

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I Ain't Living Long Like This

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I looked for trouble and I found it son

Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun

I'd try to run but I don't think I can

You make one move and you're a dead man friend

I ain't living long like this

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

He slipped the handcuffs on behind my back

Then left me freezing on a steelrail truck

I got 'em all in the jailhouse

I ain't they baby I ain't living long like this

Grew up in Houston off of wayside drive

Son of a carhop in some old night dive

Dad drove a stock car to an early death

All I remember was a drunk man's breath

I ain't living long like this

I 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

I ain't living long like this

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

[ guitar ]

I live for angel she's a roadhouse queen

Make Texas Ruby look like Sandra Dee

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

I'm at the bottom of the jailhouse now

I ain't living long like this

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

You know the story bout the jailhouse rock

Go on and do it but just don't get caught

Got 'em all in the jailhouse baby

I ain't living long like this

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

[ guitar - piano ]

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