(verse 1)  
C5        
You  looked for trouble and you found it son, 
         
Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun, 
C5        
You tried to run but I don't think you can, 
C5  
You make one move and you're a dead man friend, 


             F5 
Ain't living long like this, 
              C5          
Can't live at all like this can I baby, 
G5        
He slipped the handcuffs on behind your back, 
         
And left me freezing  on a steel rail track, 
            F5  
They got'em all in the jailhouse baby, 
                C5 
I Ain't living long like this,  
 
(verse 2) 
C5        
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) 
               F5 
I Ain't living long like this, 
              C5 
Can't live at all like this can I baby, 
 G5           
You know the story how the wheel goes round, 
         
Don't let them take you to the man downtown, 
            F5 
They got ie all in  the jailhouse baby, 
             C5 
Ain't living long like this, 
         
Can't live at all like this can I baby, 
 
(lead chords - - 
F5 - C5 - F5 - C5 - F5 - C5 ) 
 
 
(bridge) 
C5        
You live with Angel she's a roadhouse queen, 
C5        
Makes Texas Ruby look like Sandra Dee, 
C5        
You want to love her but you don't know how, 
         
Your at the bottom in the jailhouse now, 
 
(chorus) 
             F5 
Ain't living long like this, 
              C5  
Can't live at all like this can I baby, 
G5        
You know the story about the jailhouse rock, 
         
Go on and do it but just don't get caught, 
               F5   
Can't sleep at all in the jailhouse baby, 
             C5 
Ain't living long like this, 
         
Can't live at all like this can i baby, 
 
Ain't living long like  this, 
 
Outro - 
F5 - C5 - F5 - C5 - F5 - C5