(verse 1)  
C        
You  looked for trouble and you found it son, 
         
Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun, 
C        
You tried to run but I don't think you can, 
C  
You make one move and you're a dead man friend, 


             F 
Ain't living long like this, 
              C          
Can't live at all like this can I baby, 
G        
He slipped the handcuffs on behind your back, 
         
And left me freezing  on a steel rail track, 
            F  
They got'em all in the jailhouse baby, 
                C 
I Ain't living long like this,  
 
(verse 2) 
C        
Grew up in Houston off the wayside drive, 
         
Son of a carhop in some all night dives, 
         
Dad drove a stock car to an early death, 
         
All I remember was a drunk man's breath, 
 
(chorus) 
               F 
I Ain't living long like this, 
              C 
Can't live at all like this can I baby, 
 G           
You know the story how the wheel goes round, 
         
Don't let them take you to the man downtown, 
            F 
They got ie all in  the jailhouse baby, 
             C 
Ain't living long like this, 
         
Can't live at all like this can I baby, 
 
(lead chords - - 
F - C - F - C - F - C ) 
 
 
(bridge) 
C        
You live with Angel she's a roadhouse queen, 
C        
Makes Texas Ruby look like Sandra Dee, 
C        
You want to love her but you don't know how, 
         
Your at the bottom in the jailhouse now, 
 
(chorus) 
             F 
Ain't living long like this, 
              C  
Can't live at all like this can I baby, 
G        
You know the story about the jailhouse rock, 
         
Go on and do it but just don't get caught, 
               F   
Can't sleep at all in the jailhouse baby, 
             C 
Ain't living long like this, 
         
Can't live at all like this can i baby, 
 
Ain't living long like  this, 
 
Outro - 
F - C - F - C - F - C