Life Aint Fair And The World Is Mean Chords

  			
Intro: 
                              B7           A7              E 
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D |-------------------------|----------------------------|-------| 
A |-----------------0-------|--2-----------0-------------|-------| 
E |--0--3-----4-------------|-----------------------3b---|--0----| 

verse 1: 
          E 
Well that label man said son now can you sing a little bit more clear  
     E 
Your voice might be too genuine and your song's a little too sincere  
        E                                        A7                 E 
Can you sing a little more about outlaws and the way things used to be  
           E (once)                                        B7 (once)           (fill 1) 
He told me you just worry about writing them songs leaving everything else to me  

verse 2: 
      E 
Daddy was a Highwayman but he never wrote any old country songs  
E 
Papaw never stayed out raising hell til the break of dawn  
       E                                           A7 
But he raised a proud coal miners daughter and I'm proud to be her son  
            E (once)                                         B7 (once) (fill 2) 
She told me boy I don't care if you hit it big, cause you’re already #1  

 
                  A7                 E 
That's the way it goes in this day & age  
    E                                                          B7 
You ain't gotta read between the lines you just gotta turn the page  
              A7                                   E  
Well the most outlaw thing that I've ever done was give a good woman a ring  
                      E                B7                    E 
But that's the way it goes, life ain't fair and the world is mean  

Solo: 
|A7      |E    A7  |E   B7  |E       | 


verse 3: 
             E 
Well I still got the wife and the dog but I swapped the truck out for a van  
      E 
Gonna hit the road find the end of that long white line in the promise land  
      E                                    A7                 E 
Won’t hear my song on the radio cause that new sounds all the rage  
            E                                       B7 (once)             (fill 2)      
But you can always find me in a smokey bar with bad sound and a dim lit stage 

 
                  A7                 E 
That's the way it goes in this day & age  
    E                                                          B7 
You ain't gotta read between the lines you just gotta turn the page  
              A7                                   E  
Well the most outlaw thing that I've ever done was give a good woman a ring  
                      E                B7                    E 
But that's the way it goes, life ain't fair and the world is mean  
                      E                B7                    (fill 3) 
But that's the way it goes, life ain't fair and the world is mean  



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Fill 2: 
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Fill 3: 
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