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From:   Rick L [rickl1@IX.netcom.com]
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
   
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