Key: E
Introduction:
E A
We left home when was barely past eleventeen,
E B
Been back and forth, all around through hell and rain.
E A
I've loved you half your life and I'll keep on lovin' you
E B E
But I can't change and live the way you want me to.
E A
We spent alot of time out on the highway
E B
Comin' from some town we played along the way.
E A
Thirty years of knowin' me the way you do,
E B E
You know I can't change and live the way you want me to.
B E
- That red bandana tied around her auburn hair,
B E
She looks like she outta be somebody's wife somewhere.
A
She ain't never gonna be no Bobby McGee but she's tryin' to.
E B E
I can't change and live the way she wants me to. -
E A
Everytime she leaves the stage I know she's had her fill.
E B
I wonder why she grew up and why I never will.
E A
I'm fourty-one today, still goin' on twenty-two
E B E
But I can't change and live the way she wants me to.
B E
- That red bandana tied around her auburn hair,
B E
She looks like she outta be somebody's wife somewhere.
A
She ain't never gonna be no Bobby McGee but she's tryin' to.
E B E
I can't change and live the way she wants me to
B E
We can't change and live the way she wants us to.