Real Life Chords
by Jake Owen
Real Life by Jake Owen is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 4st fret. It uses the chords C, E7, Am and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C E7
Well I grew up in a real town
Am F
Where the prom queen had a plastic crown
C E7
And we really did just drive around
Am F
’Cause there wasn’t sh!t to do
C E7
We didn’t know we were real broke
Am F
Daddy rolled them real smokes
C E7
We drank RC, no real Coke
Am F
But our neighbor had a pool
C E7 Am
We got green grass and two trees
F
Whoa oh oh oh oh
C E7 Am
But it ain’t like what’s on TV
F
Whoa oh oh oh oh
C E7 Am F
This is real life in the real world
C E7
We ain’t talking to no models
Am F
We got real girls
C E7 Am F
We get real low, we get real high
C E7 Am F
It ain’t all good baby but it’s all right
C E7 Am F
Real life
C E7 Am F
na na na na
C
We got a dive bar
E7 Am
With a real band, they play too loud
F
And they’re real bad
C E7
But we’re real boys so we still dance
Am F
And we stay out way too late
C E7
Hit the Waffle House for some real food
Am F
But that waitress, she’s real rude
C E7
She got real problems but we do too
Am F
So we tip her anyway
C E7 Am
That’s just the way that it is
F
Whoa oh oh oh oh
C E7 Am
That’s just the way that we live
F
Whoa oh oh oh oh
C E7 Am F
This is real life in the real world
C E7
We ain’t talking to no models
Am F
We got real girls
C E7 Am F
We get real low, we get real high
C E7 Am F
It ain’t all good baby but it’s all right
C E7 Am F
Real life
C E7 Am F
Yeah we’re livin’ real life
C E7
We find real love, get real hurt
Am F
Fall real hard, shake off the dirt
F E7
Pray to God, let’s make a deal
Am F
I guess it just got real
C E7 Am F
na na na na na na
C E7 Am F
na na na na na na
C E7 Am F
We get real low, we get real high
C E7 Am F
It ain’t all good baby but it’s all right
C E7
Real life
Am F C E7 Am F
This ain’t no fairy tale, it’s real life