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Key: C#
Tuning: Standard
πΈ Intro:
C F ( x2 )
πΈ Verse :
C
I was a bad reputation with an
F C
attitude to match
F
Hell bent on goin' nowhere and gettin'
C
there lightning fast
Twenty-one and looking thirty
F C
but acting half my age
Bound to hit a wall before
F C
I ever hit the brakes
πΈ Chorus:
F C
Codeine, it got Elvis
F C
Whiskey, it got Hank
F C
I always thought something like that
Am G
Might send me on my way
F C
But you took hold of me
F G Am
Like only a woman can
F C
And gave one good reason to live
G C F
To a set-on-dying man
πΈ Verse :
C
When a Friday meets a Sunday
F C
you can't help but see the light
I never believed in angels till
F C
one believed in me that night
F
Turned my off-track into a straight line
G
Before I turned into a headline, like
πΈ Chorus:
F C
Like codeine, it got Elvis
F C
Whiskey, it got Hank
F C
I always thought something like that
Am G
Might send me on my way
F C
But you took hold of me
F G Am
Like only a woman can
F C
And gave one good reason to live
G F C F C
To a set-on-dying maaan
F C Am G
Whoa ohhhh oh ohhhh
πΈ Break:
F C
Turned a one-way man 180
F C
Settled down a giving-upper
F C
Yeah, you changed and you-can't-change-me
Am G
So the world won't see another
πΈ Chorus:
F C
Codeine, it got Elvis
F C
Whiskey, it got Hank
F C
I always thought something like that
Am G
Might send me on my way
F C
But you took hold of me
F G Am
Like only a woman can
F C
And gave one good reason to live
G C F
To a set-on-dying man
πΈ Outro:
C F C
A set-on-dying maaaan
Chords used in song:
C
F
Am
G
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- Dying Man (Intro)
Song History
Published: March 4, 2023
Last Updated: January 17, 2026