Tom T. Hall – Life Dont Have To Mean Nothing At All (Guitar)

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Now if you wanna be happy let me tell ya how to do it,

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You get up in the morning at you get right to it,

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You bring home the bacon and you make a little bread,

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Get a little sleepy and you go back to bed.

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[Verse 2]
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Well if everyone says your a little too tall,

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Go out and get yourself a basketball,

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Dye your hair orange and put a ring in your ear,

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And you can make forty-seven million dollars a year.

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Life don't have to mean nothing at all.

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Now if everyone says your a little too short,

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Go out and get yourself a big ol' horse,

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You can be a jockey if you ain't got no fear,

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And you can make forty-seven million dollars a year.

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Life don't have to mean nothing at all.

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Life don't have to mean nothing at all.

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Be good to your sister, good to your brother,

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Good to your papa, and good to your mother,

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Life don't have to mean nothing at all.

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Now if your a con-man looking for a pigeon,

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Go out and start a brand new religion,

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Get on tv and make a money request,

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and they can all go to heaven while they're starvin' to death,

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Life dont have to mean nothing at all.

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Now if everybody says your a little too rough,

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Go out and get yourself some boxing gloves,

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Beat someone up around the ears

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and you can make forty-seven million dollars a year,

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Life don't have to mean nothing at all.

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Life don't have to mean nothing at all.

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Be good to your sister, Good to your brother,

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Might even try to be good to one another,

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Life dont have to mean nothing at all.

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Now if everyone says you're a little too slick,

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Go out and get yourself into politics,

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Get that office and get that power,

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And you can spend forty-seven million dollars and hour.

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Life don't have to mean nothing at all.

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Now if you can pick a guitar and sing through your nose,

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Get yourself a bunch of cowboy clothes,

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Sing about dying and shedding those tears,

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And you can lose forty-seven million dollars a year.

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Life don't have to mean nothing at all.

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Life don't have to mean nothing at all.

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Don't trouble your mind or worry your soul,

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About stuff you ain't supposed to know,

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Life don't have to mean nothing at all.

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No life don't have to mean nothing at all.