Sturgill Simpson – Life Aint Fair And The World Is Mean (Guitar)

Intro:
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Well that label man said son now can you sing a little bit more clear 

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Your voice might be too genuine and your song's a little too sincere 

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Can you sing a little more about outlaws and the way things used to be 

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He told me you just worry about writing them songs leaving everything else to me 

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Daddy was a Highwayman but he never wrote any old country songs 

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Papaw never stayed out raising hell til the break of dawn 

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But he raised a proud coal miners daughter and I'm proud to be her son 

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She told me boy I don't care if you hit it big, cause you’re already #1 

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That's the way it goes in this day & age 

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You ain't gotta read between the lines you just gotta turn the page 

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Well the most outlaw thing that I've ever done was give a good woman a ring 

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But that's the way it goes, life ain't fair and the world is mean 

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Well I still got the wife and the dog but I swapped the truck out for a van 

      E
Gonna hit the road find the end of that long white line in the promise land 

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Won’t hear my song on the radio cause that new sounds all the rage 

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But you can always find me in a smokey bar with bad sound and a dim lit stage

                  A7                 E
That's the way it goes in this day & age 

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You ain't gotta read between the lines you just gotta turn the page 

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Well the most outlaw thing that I've ever done was give a good woman a ring 

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But that's the way it goes, life ain't fair and the world is mean 

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But that's the way it goes, life ain't fair and the world is mean 

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