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Rough On The Living Recorded by Bobby Bare Written by Shel Silverstein
CHis picture was G7in all the Cpapers They said that a legend had passed The Flate evening news did a special report And swore that his memory would Clast
They're playing his records all weekend
Praising the C7life that he Flived Nashville is rough on the Cliving But she G7really speaks well of the Cdead
The wife that they G7interviewed Ccried Is the same one who left him last fall And the Frecord producer who called him a hero Is the one who wouldn't answer his Ccalls
The ladies they sit over coffee
Bragging C7bout sharing his Fbed They didn't want him around when he's Cliving But he's G7sure a good friend when he's Cdead
They Fobserved twenty seconds of Csilence At the G7Opry on Saturday Cnight And Fthey're searching the bars and the Cbasements For D7some souvenir of his G7life
They're Cplanning a G7book for CSeptember Showing his plain country roots Any Fthey're selling the rights to the movie And the Hall of Fame's getting his Cboots
At the funeral somebody recited a poem
That told how C7he suffered and Fbled Nashville is rough on the Cliving But she G7really speaks well of the Cdead
Yeah FNashville is rough on the Cliving But she G7really speaks well of the Cdead