Key: C
Introduction: C F C G
C F
Carhart jacket on 5:30 am
C G
Feelin' like the ace of spades
C F
15 years old, work till the sun comes
C G C
Then I'm off to school again
F C
Workin' my back as a young man
Am G F
Taught me I'd rather work my mind
C
So we'd cop a little smoke
F
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
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
F
Anytime
Instrumental
C
I had a teacher
F C G
She told my mother she better find me a trade
C F
Because boys like me well we all grow up
C G C
To be long term guests of the state
F C
Now I worked hard because I had to
Am G F
I never found much luck
C
Till' I built my world
F
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
F
Anytime
Instrumental
C F
Sometimes at night I wake with a shiver
C G C
Sweat soakin' clean through my sheets
C F
Then I remember I am who I am
C G C
Not who they said I would be
F C
I wasn't born with nothin'
Am C F
Cept' a voice and common sense
C F
Maybe that's why I took off runnin'
C G C
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
F
Anytime
Am G
Oh workin' to live beats livin' to work
C
Anytime