I Aint Living Long Like This

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

You looked for trouble and you found it son

Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun

You tried to run but I don't think you can

You make one move and you're a dead man friend

Ain't living long like this

Can't live at all like this can I baby

He slipped the handcuffs on behind your back

And left me freezing on a steel rail track

They got'em all in the jailhouse baby

I Ain't living long like this

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

I Ain't living long like this

Can't live at all like this can I baby

You know the story how the wheel goes 'round

Don't let them take you to the man downtown

They got ie all in the jailhouse baby

Ain't living long like this

Can't live at all like this can i baby

You live with Angel she's a roadhouse queen

Makes Texas Ruby look like Sandra Dee

You want to love her but you don't know how

Your at the bottom in the jailhouse now

Ain't living long like this

Can't live at all like this can I baby

You know the story about the jailhouse rock

Go on and do it but just don't get caught

Can't sleep at all in the jailhouse baby

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