A Life Worth Living Chords
A Life Worth Living by Marc Broussard is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords F, C, G, Am and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: F C F C F C G
VERSE I
F C
To know how to live a life worth living
F C
Picked the story Mamie Ruth
F C
Who together with James Gerald
G Am G
Bore a generation just like me and you
F C
No doubt that they would make it
F C
With the love only the world could hold
F C
And despite all of the odds against em
G Am G
It's harder for the world to let her go
F
Don't wanna let go
F Am G Am G
Oh the way it rained the day they came for Mamie
F Am G
With a love so strong that it took a hurricane
F C C Em F
To try to wash away the pain in Mamie's family
C G F
As if they could, as if they would
F C
Feel the pain in losing Mamie
F C
VERSE II
F C
Started out in small town Louisiana
F C
Getting married 'fore seventeen
F C
After waiting on a daddy's promise
G Am G
A promise turned into a daddy's dream
F C
And the years filled up with blessings
G Am G
And the family branches grew
F C G
And Mamie and Gerald's love was the light come shining through
F Am G Am G
Oh the way it rained the day they came for Mamie
F Am G
With a love so strong that it took a hurricane
F C C Em F
To try to wash away the pain in Mamie's family
C G F
As if they could, as if they would
C
Feel the pain in losing Mamie
BRIDGE
F C
Old Isaac's rain was nothing
G
If you could feel that family's grief
F C
And in dying just like living
G
It was Mamie who took the lead
F C
To live a life worth living
F C
F C G
Ooooh Oooooooooooooooh
F Am C
Oh the way it rained the day they came for Mamie
F G C
With a love so strong that it took a hurricane
F C C F
To try to wash away the pain in Mamie's family
F C C
As if they could, as if they would