I Lived So Fast And Hard Chords
I Lived So Fast And Hard by Porter Wagoner is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G7 and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C G7 C
I was raised on cornbread and gravy
G7 C G7
And I slept in a cardboard box till I was nearly three
C G7 C G7
I bathed myself in the muddy river running by our shack
C F C G7 C
By the time that I had reached thirteen I'd been through hell and back
F G7
I've been thrown from pillar to post
F C
I've been banged around and scarred
F
I've done so much I've seen so much
C G7 C
And I've lived so fast and hard
G7 C G7
Mama died when I was young and I never knew my dad
C G7 C G7 C
I never had the love and care that other children had
G7 C G7
I spent five years in an orphan's home but I ran off one day
C F C G7 C
And I hoboed an old freight train to San Francisco Bay
F G7
I've fought in the war I've been in jail
F C
There ain't much I ain't done
F
I'd lived as much as any man
C G7 C
Before I was twenty one
F G7
I've been thrown from pillar to post
F C
I've been banged around and scarred
F
I've done so much I've seen so much
C G7 C
And I've lived so fast and hard