Ive Lived So Fast And Hard

C

G7

C

I was raised on cornbread and gravy

G7

C

G7

And I slept in a cardboard box till I was nearly three

C

G7

C

G7

I bathed myself in the muddy river running by our shack

C

F

C

G7

C

By the time that I had reached thirteen I’d been through hell and back

F

G7

I’ve been thrown from pillar to post

F

C

I’ve been banged around and scarred

F

I’ve done so much I’ve seen so much

C

G7

C

And I’ve lived so fast and hard

G7

C

G7

Mama died when I was young and I never knew my dad

C

G7

C

G7

C

I never had the love and care that other children had

G7

C

G7

I spent five years in an orphan’s home but I ran off one day

C

F

C

G7

C

And I hoboed an old freight train to San Francisco Bay

F

G7

I’ve fought in the war I’ve been in jail

F

C

There ain’t much I ain’t done

F

I’d lived as much as any man

C

G7

C

Before I was twenty one

F

G7