Artist: | Jerry Garcia (English) |
User: | Paul DeFelice |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
Short Life Of Trouble
Lyrics: Traditional
Music: Traditional
Played Jerry with David Grisman and in the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band.
Chorus:
E
Short life of trouble
A E
A few more words to part
A E C#m
Short life of trouble, dear girl
E B A E
For a boy with a broken heart
Remember what you promised
Not more than a week ago
You promised that you'd marry me
Standing in your mama's door
[chorus]
Now you broke your promise
Go marry whom you may
For this old world is so big and so wide
I'll ramble back some day
[chorus]
Now you've gone and left me
I don't know what I'll do
I'd give this world and half my life
Just to be married to you
[chorus]
Traditional version have an additional verse that I don't think Jerry sang:
My right foot's on the platform
My left foot's on the train
I'm leaving you and this lonesome old town
To never return again