Chords for Forty and Fading - Ray Price Live

[Bb] Here.
_ _ [Dm] He [G] _ [Bb] _ [Gm] _
[Dm] _ [Gm] [Bb] looked in the mirror while he was [Eb] shaving this morning.
_ [F] The lines in his face and the [Cm] age in his [Bb] eyes gave a warning.
_ As he stands face to face with a man that [Eb] everyone's seen.
_ He whispers it's hell to be [Bb] 40 and fading, [F] feeling like you're 23.
[Bb] _ [Gm] When [Bb] the young ladies look, they still get that gleam [Eb] in their eyes.
_ [F] He's got money [Bb] to burn, but [F] there's one thing he don't [Bb] have to buy.
_ Last night he learned you're as young as you let [Eb] yourself be.
_ He may look like he's [Bb] 40 and fading, [F] she made him [Bb] feel 23.
_ _ [Eb] They say it's hell to be 40 and fading, but now on it's [Bb] all downhill.
[C] But he don't believe it, cause life's what you live it, and he's just beginning [Fm] to [Bb] live.
[F] _
[Bb] As long as there's ladies that need a good loving, that's where [Eb] he's gonna [Cm] be.
[Eb] He may look like he's 40 [Bb] and fading, [F] inside he's still [Bb] 23.
[Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _
[Cm] _ [Bb] _ _ _ He thinks it's a shame that God wasted youth [Eb] on the [Bb] young.
[Eb] Cause [F] your life is half over before you learn [Bb] how it's done.
_ Now he's living the life that a young man's eyes [Eb] never see.
_ He may look like he's 40 [Bb] and fading, [Gb] [F] inside he's still [Bb] 23.
_ He [Eb] may look like he's 40 [Bb] and fading, [Gb] [F] inside he's still [Bb] 23.
[G] _ [Dm] _