I Came Here To Live Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

AI grew up in a town where tough was a cigarette

And a souped up car on a county road

Nothin' much to do back then

So we'd make bets

On how much drink a guy could hold

 And I held my owDn

 Learn to hold my oAwn (play intro 1 time)

ADaddy works some dead-end job at the concrete plant

Mama taught the Sunday bible class

For eighteen years I remember thinkin'

There was more to life than that

 So I ran the streets to beat the DDevil

 Goin' just as fast as I could fAly

 'Cause I came here to liDve

EI dCidn't cCome here Cto die A

DMama used to wait for me with the poArch light on

EWorried about her little boy 'til AI got home

DDaddy he'd say listen son

ABut back then there wasn't much

CThat I didn't already kDnow

(same chords from here on out)

I reckon I was doing close to 80

When I felt the tire slip out from under me

And I never set out lookin' for Jesus

So I guess Jesus come lookin' for me

And He found me upside down in a ditch

Smokin' gas in my eyes

And He said son you came here to live

You didn't come here to die

Sunday morning I got up and I went to church

That summer I got a job and I went to work

Met a girl in town put some money down

On a little house with a yard

Our little boy was due in September

But he came early in July

For eighteen days all I remember

Was settin' there at his side

Sayin' son open up your eyes

Just open up your eyes

'Cause you came here to live

You didn't come here to die

Son you came here to live

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