You looked for trouble and you found it son
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Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun
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You'd try to run but you don't think you can
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You make one move and you're dead man, friend
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I ain't living long like this
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I can't live at all like this, can I baby
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He slipped the handcuffs on behind my back
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Then he left me freezing on a stel rail track
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They got 'em all in the jailhouse, ain't they bay
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I ain't living long like this
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grew up in Houston off of Wayside drive
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Son of a charhop in some all night dive
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Dad drove a stock car to an early death
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All I remember was a drunk man's death
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I ain't living long like this
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I can't live at all like this can I baby
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We know the story how the wheel goes round
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Don't let 'em take you to the man downtown
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Can't sleep at all in the jailhouse,baby
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I ain't living long like this
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You live for angel, she's a roadhouse queen
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Make Texas ruby look like Sandra Dee
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You want to love her but you don't know how
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You're at the bottom of the jailhouse now
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I ain't living long like this
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I can't live at all like this, can I baby
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You know the story 'bout the jailhouse rock
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Go on and do it, but just don't get caught
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They got 'em all in the jailhouse, ain't they baby
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I ain't living long like this
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I Ain't Livin' Long Like This
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| Rodney Crowell |
