Chords for Huffman's Lament

_ _ [E] _ _ [Am] _ _ I wasn't born into this world [G] with a halo on my head.
[F] I was cold and I was naked, and I was trying [Am] to be fed.
_ _ Well, after wedding tears, oh [G] boy, it ain't no way to start.
[F] Take all you can take and break the leftovers, [Am] why?
_ _ [G] Cause the road [Em] winds on forever, [Am] _ [G] and the _ story's [Am] seldom told.
_ [G] That when you get spent [Am] hard living, _ [G] you just die in two.
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[Am] _ _ _ _ _ Save me, oh save me, [G] for I know not what I do.
[F] The only teaching that I got was learn to [Am] watch you.
_ My daddy was a drifter, [G] and my mama was the marten.
[F] A lot of matches killed them all, they said I [Am] was the smart one.
[G] And the road winds [Am] on forever, _ [G] and the _ story's [Am] seldom told. _
[G] That when you get spent [Am] hard living, _ [G] you just die in two.
[Am] Get old, _ _
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and I came my son caught, [G] everything burned in my way.
[F] I heard all their pleading sadness, but I couldn't [Am] feel their pain.
_ I killed, lied, and cheated [G] like no one was ever father.
[F] Like I couldn't be defeated, got no guilt [Am] without the love.
_ [G] And the road winds [Am] on forever, _ [G] and the _ story's [Am] seldom told.
_ [G] That when you get spent [Am] hard living, _ you just die in two.
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[Am] _ [A] _ _ As I lay here dying, [G] with kindness in my heart,
[F] I see a girl [C] before me, she is tender [Am] and she is smart.
_ Yet no one ever told me that [G] this feeling could be mine.
[F] Through all my hate and anger, I was only [Am] still in time. _
[G] Cause the road winds [Am] on forever, _ [G] and the _ story's [Am] seldom told. _
[G] That when you get spent [Am] hard living, _ you just die in two.
[F] Get old.
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