Artist/Band:
Waylon Jennings
Lyrics for Song: I Ain't Living Long Like This
Lyrics for Album: The Collection [Madacy] [2005]
(Rodney Crowell)
I looked for trouble and I found it son
Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun
I'd try to run but you 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 track.
They got 'em all in the jailhouse baby
I ain't living long like this
I can't live at all like this, can I baby?
Grew up in Houston off of Wayside Drive
Son of a carhop in some old night dive
Dad drove a stock car to an early death
All I remember was a drunk man's breath.
I ain't living long like this
I can't live at all like this, can I baby?
We know the story how the wheel goes round
Don't let 'em take you to the man downtown
Can't sleep at all in the jailhouse baby
I ain't living long like this
I can't live at all like this, can I baby?
--- Instrumental ---
I live for angel, she's a roadhouse queen
Make Texas Ruby look like Sandra Dee
I want to love her but I don't know how
I'm at the bottom of the jailhouse now.
I ain't living long like this
I can't live at all like this, can I baby?
You know the story bout the jailhouse rock
Go on and do it but just don't get caught
They got 'em all in the jailhouse baby
I ain't living long like this
I can't live at all like this, can I baby?...
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