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Carhart jacket on 5:30 am
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Feelin' like the ace of spades
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15 years old, work till the sun comes
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Then I'm off to school again
F                    C
Workin' my back as a young man
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Taught me I'd rather work my mind
        C
So we'd cop a little smoke
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And crack a couple jokes
     C         G        C
Just tryin' to learn to survive

            F
I wanted to work to live
                    C
No not just live to work
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I had a pain deep in my bones beneath my t-shirt
      C                    F
Was a young man singin' an old man's song
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Payin' with my last dimes
    C                     G
But workin' to live beats livin' to work
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Anytime

[Instrumental]
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I had a teacher
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She told my mother she better find me a trade
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Because boys like me well we all grow up
      C         G             C
To be long term guests of the state
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Now I worked hard because I had to
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I never found much luck
        C
Till' I built my world
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Round' a Georgia girl
    C            G     C
Who told me that I was enough

            F
I wanted to work to live
                    C
No not just live to work
        F                                G
I had a pain deep in my bones beneath my t-shirt
      C                    F
Was a young man singin' an old man's song
Am          G       F
Payin' with my last dimes
    C                     G
But workin' to live beats livin' to work
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Anytime

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Sometimes at night I wake with a shiver
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Sweat soakin' clean through my sheets
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Then I remember I am who I am
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Not who they said I would be
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I wasn't born with nothin'
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Cept' a voice and common sense
      C            F
Maybe that's why I took off runnin'
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First chance that I had

            F
I wanted to work to live
                    C
No not just live to work
        F                                G
I had a pain deep in my bones beneath my t-shirt
      C                    F
Was a young man singin' an old man's song
Am          G       F
Payin' with my last dimes
    C                     G
But workin' to live beats livin' to work
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Anytime

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Oh workin' to live beats livin' to work
C
Anytime