Chords for Jamey Johnson - High Cost Of Living (Live at Farm Aid 2009)

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_ [Bb] _ _ [C] I was just a normal guy.
Life was just a nine to five with bills and pressure piled up through [G] the sky. _ _
_ She never asked, she knew I'd be hanging with my wildest dreams,
looking for some other way [C] to fly.
Three _ _ days straight was no biggie.
It might have _ _ [F] been crazy, [C] but I [Dm] knew it from the start.
_ _ [C] I'd pass out on the bedroom [G] floor, sleep right through the car [C] door. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] My life was just a cold routine, [G] _ everyday the same damn [C] thing, _
[Bb] until I [F] was blind.
_ I'd fail [C] me, I'd cost a living, [G] and even then I'd cost a [C] living, right? _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ That southern Baptist parking lot is where I'd go to smoke my pipe,
sit there in my pickup truck and [G] pray.
_ _ _ _ Staring at that giant cross just reminded me that I was lost.
It just never seemed to [C] find a way. _ _ _
That's when I asked Jesus for a dead bag.
I'd find my way across the [F] tracks, if it [C] just was for [Dm] another day.
_ _ [C] With my back against that damn bay [G] wall, I didn't have to think or [C] talk,
I just felt good. _ _
_ _ [F] My life was just a cold [G] routine, everyday the same [C] damn thing, _
[Bb] until I [F] was blind.
_ I'd fail me, [C] I'd cost a living, [G] and even then I'd cost [C] a living, right? _ _ _
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[C] My whole life went through my head, laying in that motel bed,
watching as the cops kicked in the [G] door.
_ _ _ I had a job and a piece of land, my sweet wife was my best friend,
but I'd trade [C] that for cocaine, I'm all alone.
_ _ _ I knew it would be so pricey, but I've got the [F] time to set the table
for all the things [C] I've had.
[Dm] I've got the proof that _ [C] this prison is much colder than [G] that one
that I was locked up [C] in, just yesterday. _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] My life was just a cold [G] routine, everyday the same damn [C] thing,
hell I can't [Bb] even tell if [F] I'm alive.
_ I [C] tell you, the high cost of living, [G] ain't nothing like the cost [C] of living high.
_ _ _ _ _ _ I tell you, the high cost of living, it [G] ain't nothing like the cost of [C] living high. _ _ _
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[F] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] It ain't nothing like the cost of living high. _
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