Chords
Rough On The Living

Key: C

Introduction:

C                                      G7                      C  
His picture was in all the papers
They said that a legend had passed
          F  
The late evening news did a special report
                                                                                     C  
And swore that his memory would last
They're playing his records all weekend
                                  C7                            F  
Praising the life that he lived
                                                                     C  
Nashville is rough on the living
                     G7                                                              C  
But she really speaks well of the dead
                                                  G7                         C  
The wife that they interviewed cried
Is the same one who left him last fall
                     F  
And the record producer who called him a hero
                                                                                             C  
Is the one who wouldn't answer his calls
The ladies they sit over coffee
                        C7                                      F  
Bragging bout sharing his bed
                                                                                                     C  
They didn't want him around when he's living
                        G7                                                                      C  
But he's sure a good friend when he's dead
             F                                                                    C  
They observed twenty seconds of silence
                  G7                                      C  
At the Opry on Saturday night
          F                                                                                         C  
And they're searching the bars and the basements
          D7                                                 G7  
For some souvenir of his life
                     C                         G7                 C  
They're planning a book for September
Showing his plain country roots
          F  
Any they're selling the rights to the movie
                                                                                             C  
And the Hall of Fame's getting his boots
At the funeral somebody recited a poem
                                     C7                                    F  
That told how he suffered and bled
                                                                     C  
Nashville is rough on the living
                     G7                                                              C  
But she really speaks well of the dead
             F                                                                 C  
Yeah Nashville is rough on the living
                     G7                                                              C  
But she really speaks well of the dead