Life Ain't Fair and the World Is Mean Chords by Sturgill Simpson

[Start]

[Verse]
B A E                         
■ ■ ■ Well that label man said
                E                           
Son now can you sing a little bit more clear
          E                         
Said Your voice might be too genuine
     E                          
Your song's a little too sincere
        E                                   
Can you sing a little more about outlaws and
    A                  E 
The way things used to be
                                            E    
He told me You just worry about writing 'em songs


[Chorus]
B7                    E      
Leave everything else ■ to me
      E               
Daddy was a highwayman
             E                         
But he never wrote any old country song
E                                  
Papaw never stayed out raising hell
         E            
'til the break of dawn
       E                                  
But he raised a proud coal miners daughter
        A               E  
And I'm proud to be her son
                                           E  
She told me Boy I don't care if you hit it big
       B7                       
'cause you're already number one
E                 A                E      
That's the way it goes in this day and age
         E                                 
Said you ain't gotta read between the lines
                            B7  
And you just don't turn the page
                                     A7       
Well the most outlaw thing that I've ever done
E                                              
Give a good woman a ring that's the way it goes
           B                     E   
Life ain't fair and the world is mean
A E B7 E E7
■ ■ ■  ■ ■ 
E                                    
Well I still got the wife and the dog
                                 E  
But I swapped my truck out for a van
                        E                   
Gonna hit the road find the end of that long
                           E   
White line in the promised land
                              E7   
You won't hear my song on the radio
A                  E   
New sounds all the rage
                            E         
You can always find me in a smokey bar
         B7                       
With bad sound and a dim lit stage
E          A                           E  
That's the way it goes in this day and age
                                  E        
Said you ain't gotta read between the lines
                            B7  
And you just don't turn the page
              A                               
Well the most outlaw thing that I've ever done
       E                                       
Give a good woman a ring that's the way it goes
B7                               E7  
Life ain't fair and the world is mean
E7                    
That's the way it goes
B7                                    E
Life ain't fair and the world is mean ■


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