Chords for Rodney Crowell ~ I Ain't Living Long Like This

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I had a dog named Banjo who I refused to put on a leash, so I got 46 leash law violations.
And I refused to pay them.
I couldn't get the dog catchers to understand
the nature of how intelligent this dog was.
So they had enough of me and they came one day.
And I had started working on the song in the afternoon and they just politely took me to jail,
where I _ proudly wrote the last verse of the song in jail.
And my then girlfriend came and got me
out of jail.
And I had a finished song and I never did put Banjo on a leash.
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_ [E] _ [A] I ain't living on like this.
I ain't living _ _ [E] on _ like this.
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_ I [A] ain't living on like this. _
_ _ _ Grew up in Houston on the West Side Drive.
Son of a cop is a monad guy.
Died of a stock car turn early death.
All I remember was a drunk dance, [D] but I ain't living long like this. _
_ I [Am] can't live at [A] all like this.
Can I be bad?
_ _ [E] Y'all know the story how the wheel goes round.
Don't let them take you to the man [D] downtown.
They got a law in a jail. _
I [A] ain't living on like this.
_ I can't live at all like this.
Can I be bad?
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_ _ _ I live for Angel.
She's a roadhouse queen.
Make Texas Ruby look like Sandra Dee.
I want to love her, but I don't know how.
Down on the bottom of the jailhouse.
I ain't living [D] long like this. _
_ I [A] can't live at all like this.
Can I be bad?
_ [E] Y'all know the story about the jailhouse run.
Gonna do it, but don't [D] get caught.
They got a law in a _ jailhouse.
_ [A] I ain't living long like this. _
_ _ I can't live at all like this.
Can I be bad?
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