Life Aint Easy Chords
Life Aint Easy by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of B. It uses the chords B, E and F#. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro B E F# B (2x)
Verse
B E F# B
Well here I am in the wind again, floating where it takes me
B E F# B
Laughin' and a splashin' in the summer sun, until the alarm clock awakes me
B E F#
Then it's coffee and a wish and two cigarettes, and I'm back out in the
F# B
cold, cold weather
B E F# B
Chasin' my dream but I just can't seem to rub two coins together
B
(Sing it)
B E B
Life ain't easy, they never said it would be
B E B
Life ain't easy, whoever said it should be
B F#
Life ain't easy, and nothing comes free, free, free, free
B E B
Life ain't easy, tell me all about it
B E
Life ain't easy, no, no, no, no
B E F#
Life ain't easy, and nothing comes free, for you or me
Verse
Repeat Intro 2x
B E F# B
That woman she don't understand, the way my mind keeps driftin'
B E F# B
And the Lord don't always lend a hand, when my poor heart needs liftin'
B E F# B
Is home and kids really all there is, or is there something better?
B E F# B
And how much soul must a poor man sell to rub two coins together?
Outro
B
Don't you know that
B E
Life ain't easy, no, no, no, no
B E F# B
Life ain't easy, whoever said it would be
B F# B
Life ain't easy, and nothing comes free, free, free, free
B E
Life ain't easy, can you hear me
B E
Life ain't easy, tell me all about it
B F# B
Life ain't easy, and nothing comes free, free, free, free
B E
Life ain't easy, tell me all about it
B E
Life ain't easy, no, no, no, no
B F#
Life ain't easy, and nothing comes free, free, free, free, free, free, free
B E
Life ain't easy
B E
Life ain't easy...