Rodney Crowell - The Essential

I Ain't Living Long Like This

I looked for trouble and I found it son
Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun
I'd try to run, but I don't think I can
You make one move and you're a dead man friend

I ain't living long like this
I can't live at all like this, can I baby?
He slipped the handcuffs on behind my back
Then left me freezing on a steel rail truck
They got 'em all in the jailhouse
I ain't living long like this

Grew up in Houston off of wayside drive
Son of a car-hop in some all-night dive
Dad drove a stock car to an early death
All I remember was a drunk man's breath

Ain't living long like this
I can't live at all like this, can I baby?
You know the story how the wheel goes round
Don't let 'em take you to the man downtown
They got 'em all in the jailhouse
I ain't living long like this
I can't live it all like this, can I baby?

I live for Angel, she's a roadhouse queen
Make Texas Ruby look like Sandra Dee
I wanna love her, but I don't know how
Down to the bottom of the jailhouse now

Ain't living long like this
I can't live at all like this, can I baby?
You know the story about the jailhouse rock
Go on and do it, but just don't get caught
They got 'em all in the jailhouse
I ain't living long like this
I can't live at all like this, can I baby?



Credits
Writer(s): Rodney J. Crowell
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Other Album Tracks

  1. I Ain't Living Long Like This
  2. Stars On the Water
  3. Shame On the Moon
  4. Oh King Richard
  5. I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried
  6. After All This Time
  7. The Last Waltz
  8. She's Crazy for Leaving
  9. Many a Long & Lonesome Highway
  10. What Kind of Love

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Altri album

  1. The Chicago Sessions
  2. Lucky
  3. Loving You Is The Only Way To Fly
  4. Triage
  5. Something Has to Change
  6. The Damage
  7. Texas
  8. 56 Fury
  9. What You Gonna Do Now
  10. Flatland Hillbillies

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