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Rough On The Living
Recorded by Bobby Bare
Written by Shel Silverstein
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His picture was in all the papers
They said that a 🏷Legend had passed
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The late evening news did a special report
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And swore that his memory would last
They're playing his records all weekend
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Praising the life that he lived
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Nashville is rough on the living
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But she really speaks well of the dead
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The wife that they interviewed cried
Is the same one who left him last fall
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And the record producer who called him a hero
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Is the one who wouldn't answer his calls
The ladies they sit over coffee
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Bragging bout sharing his bed
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They didn't want him around when he's living
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But he's sure a good friend when he's dead
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They observed twenty seconds of silence
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At the Opry on Saturday night
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And they're searching the bars and the basements
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For some souvenir of his life
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They're planning a book for September
Showing his plain country roots
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Any they're selling the rights to the movie
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And the Hall of Fame's getting his boots
At the funeral somebody recited a poem
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That told how he suffered and bled
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Nashville is rough on the living
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But she really speaks well of the dead
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Yeah Nashville is rough on the living
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But she really speaks well of the dead
