Tono: C
Introducción:
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I was raised on cornbread and gravy
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And I slept in a cardboard box till I was nearly three
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I bathed myself in the muddy river running by our shack
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By the time that I had reached thirteen I'd been through hell and back
F G7
I've been thrown from pillar to post
F C
I've been banged around and scarred
F
I've done so much I've seen so much
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And I've lived so fast and hard
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Mama died when I was young and I never knew my dad
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I never had the love and care that other children had
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I spent five years in an orphan's home but I ran off one day
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And I hoboed an old freight train to San Francisco Bay
F G7
I've fought in the war I've been in jail
F C
There ain't much I ain't done
F
I'd lived as much as any man
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Before I was twenty one
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I've been thrown from pillar to post
F C
I've been banged around and scarred
F
I've done so much I've seen so much
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And I've lived so fast and hard