I Ain`t Living Long Like This — текст песни (Jerry Jeff Walker)

Rodney Crowell

I look for trouble and I found it son
Straight down the barrel of a lawman`s gun
I tried to run but I don`t think I can
He said one move and you`re a dead man friend
You ain`t living long like this
I can`t live at all like this, can I baby?

He slipped the handcuffs on behind my back
He left me hanging against a cold steel rack
You ain`t living long like this

Grew up in Houston off the wayside drives
Son of a carhop and some all night dives
Daddy drove a stock car to an early death
He said remember son in his dying breath
You ain`t living long like this
You can`t live at all like this, oh no baby

You know the story `bout the wheel go `round
Don`t let them take you there all down town
Ain`t living long like this

I live for Angel she`s a roadhouse queen
Make Texas Ruby look like Sandra Dee
I want to love her but I don`t know how
I`m at the bottle and I`m stumbling here
I`m in the jailhouse now
I ain`t living long like this, oh no baby

You know the story about the jailhouse rock
Well go on and do it, don`t get caught
You ain`t living long like this, oh no baby
Go on and do it but don`t get caught
Cause there all in the jailhouse now