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I Aint Living Tab

by Waylon Jennings


************** I AIN'T LIVING LONG LIKE THIS *************

written by Rodney Crowell

performed by Waylon Jennings.


Verse 1:
      
	I look for trouble and i found it son

	Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun

	I tried to run but i don't think i 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 my back

	And left me reeling on a steel reel rack
                    
	They got'em all in the jailhouse baby
                       
	Ain't living long like this

	Can't live at all like this,can i baby?


Verse 2:
         
	Grew up in Houston off the wayside drives

	Son of a carhop and some all night dives

	Dad drove a stock car to an early death

	All i remember was a drunk man's breath
                      
	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 down town
                      
	Can't sleep at all in a jailhouse baby
                      
	Ain't living long like this

	Can't live at all like this,can i baby?


Verse 3:
           
	I live with Angel she's a roadhouse queen

	Makes Texas Ruby look like Sandra Dee

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

	I'm 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

	Don't want to do it but just don't get caught
                    
	They got'em all in the jailhouse baby
                      
	Ain't living long like this

	Can't live at all like this,can i baby?

Thanks to David M. Potter for the lyrics.
Perret Charles-Amir : perret@diva.univ-mlv.fr