Ron Pope – Work (Guitar)

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Carhart jacket on 5:30 am

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Feelin' like the ace of spades

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15 years old, work till the sun comes

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Then I'm off to school again

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Workin' my back as a young man

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Taught me I'd rather work my mind

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So we'd cop a little smoke

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And crack a couple jokes

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Just tryin' to learn to survive

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I wanted to work to live

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No not just live to work

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I had a pain deep in my bones beneath my t-shirt

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Was a young man singin' an old man's song

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Payin' with my last dimes

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But workin' to live beats livin' to work

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Anytime

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I had a teacher

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She told my mother she better find me a trade

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Because boys like me well we all grow up

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To be long term guests of the state

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Now I worked hard because I had to

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I never found much luck

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Till' I built my world

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Round' a Georgia girl

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Who told me that I was enough

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I wanted to work to live

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No not just live to work

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I had a pain deep in my bones beneath my t-shirt

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Was a young man singin' an old man's song

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Payin' with my last dimes

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But workin' to live beats livin' to work

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Anytime

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Sometimes at night I wake with a shiver

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Sweat soakin' clean through my sheets

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Then I remember I am who I am

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Not who they said I would be

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I wasn't born with nothin'

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Cept' a voice and common sense

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Maybe that's why I took off runnin'

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First chance that I had

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I wanted to work to live

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No not just live to work

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I had a pain deep in my bones beneath my t-shirt

      C                    F
Was a young man singin' an old man's song

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Payin' with my last dimes

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But workin' to live beats livin' to work

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Anytime

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Oh workin' to live beats livin' to work

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Anytime