I Ain't Living Long Like This Lyrics - Jerry Jeff Walker

Rodney Crowell 

I look for trouble and I found it son 

Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun 

I tried to run but I don't think I can 

He said one move and you're a dead man friend 

You ain't living long like this 

I can't live at all like this, can I baby? 

He slipped the handcuffs on behind my back 

He left me hanging against a cold steel rack 

You ain't living long like this 

Grew up in Houston off the wayside drives 

Son of a carhop and some all night dives 

Daddy drove a stock car to an early death 

He said remember son in his dying breath 

You ain't living long like this 

You can't live at all like this, oh no baby 

You know the story 'bout the wheel go 'round 

Don't let them take you there all down town 

Ain't living long like this 

I live for Angel she's a roadhouse queen 

Make Texas Ruby look like Sandra Dee 

I want to love her but I don't know how 

I'm at the bottle and I'm stumbling here 

I'm in the jailhouse now 

I ain't living long like this, oh no baby 

You know the story about the jailhouse rock 

Well go on and do it, don't get caught 

You ain't living long like this, oh no baby 

Go on and do it but don't get caught 

Cause there all in the jailhouse now