Sent: Monday, December 22, 1997 12:13 AM
Artist: Emmylou Harris
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
You looked for trouble and you found it son
Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun
You tried to run but I don't think you can
You make one move and you're a dead man friend
Ain't living long like this
Can't live at all like this can I baby
He slipped the handcuffs on behind your back
And left me freezing on a steel rail track
They got'em all in the jailhouse baby
I Ain't living long like this
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
I Ain't living long like this
Can't live at all like this can I baby
You know the story how the wheel goes 'round
Don't let them take you to the man downtown
They got ie all in the jailhouse baby
Ain't living long like this
Can't live at all like this can i baby
SOLO
You live with Angel she's a roadhouse queen
Makes Texas Ruby look like Sandra Dee
You want to love her but you don't know how
Your at the bottom in the jailhouse now
Ain't living long like this
Can't live at all like this can I baby
You know the story about the jailhouse rock
Go on and do it but just don't get caught
Can't sleep at all in the jailhouse baby
Ain't living long like this
Can't live at all like this can i baby
Ain't living long like this
and fade out