Bobby Bare – Rough On The Living (Guitar)

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Recorded by Bobby Bare Written by Shel Silverstein
C               G7         C
His picture was in all the papers
They said that a legend had passed
    F
The late evening news did a special report

                                C
And swore that his memory would last
They're playing his records all weekend
             C7           F
Praising the life that he lived

                          C
Nashville is rough on the living

        G7                        C
But she really speaks well of the dead

                   G7          C
The wife that they interviewed cried
Is the same one who left him last fall
        F
And the record producer who called him a hero

                                   C
Is the one who wouldn't answer his calls
The ladies they sit over coffee
         C7               F
Bragging bout sharing his bed

                                      C
They didn't want him around when he's living

         G7                           C
But he's sure a good friend when he's dead

     F                          C
They observed twenty seconds of silence

       G7               C
At the Opry on Saturday night

    F                                  C
And they're searching the bars and the basements

    D7                   G7
For some souvenir of his life

        C          G7       C
They're planning a book for September
Showing his plain country roots
    F
Any they're selling the rights to the movie

                                   C
And the Hall of Fame's getting his boots
At the funeral somebody recited a poem
              C7              F
That told how he suffered and bled

                          C
Nashville is rough on the living

        G7                        C
But she really speaks well of the dead

     F                         C
Yeah Nashville is rough on the living

        G7                        C
But she really speaks well of the dead