Rough On The Living

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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                        
But she really speaks well of the 
C
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
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Is the one who wouldn't answer his 
C
calls


The ladies they sit over coffee
         C7               F
Bragging bout sharing his bed
They didn't want him around when 
     C
he's living
         G7                     
But he's sure a good friend when 
      C
he's dead

     F                         
They observed twenty seconds of 
 C
silence
       G7               C
At the Opry on Saturday night
    F                              
And they're searching the bars and 
    C
the basements
    D7                   G7
For some souvenir of his life

        C          G7     
They're planning a book for 
  C
September

Showing his plain country roots
    F
Any they're selling the rights to 
the movie
And the Hall of Fame's getting his 
C
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                        
But she really speaks well of the 
C
dead

     F                        
Yeah Nashville is rough on the 
 C
living
        G7                        
But she really speaks well of the 
C
dead