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Intro: C F C G Verse 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 F C G C F C G C 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 C G C F C G C 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
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