Key: G
Introduction:
G C
I never expected to last this long
F C
It caught me completely by surprise
F C A7
I put aside enough to let me live just fine
D G
But I never guessed I'd last past 49
C
I thought by now my friends would be toasting my memory
F C
While the Devil was toasting my souL
F C A7
Oh but it's just my luck, I outlived my bucks
D G
It's the saddest story ever told
F G C G
Oh, how could I have got this old
C F C
Hey Mel, you should have bought a piece of the rock...Or a no risk retirement plan
F C A7 D G
But instead I invested in all night bars, slow dancing ladies, fast moving cars
C F C
I thought by now I'd be safe resting peaceful in my grave due to all the women and song
F C A7
So I'd made no preparations for a drawn out situation
D
How could you have been so wrong?
F G C G
I never dreamed I'd last this long
C
Live fast, die young have a good lookin' corpse
F C
That's the motto we live so well
F C A7
So I played it hard and high but somehow I didn't die
D G
And I think my corpse is gonna look like hell
C
And the slight miscalculation on the date of my expiration
F C
Left me singing this sad, sad song
F C A7
So buddy can you spare a quarter, I'm living longer than I oughter
D
How could you have been so wrong?
F G C
I never thought i'd last this long
A7 A
Pour me the metamucl
F G C
Never thought I'd Last this long