Biography:
John Sturgill Simpson (born June 8, 1978) is an American country music and roots rock singer-songwriter.
Simpson was born in Jackson, Breathitt County, Kentucky, the only child of a secretary and a state policeman who formerly worked undercover narcotics. Due to his father's work, Simpson's family moved to Versailles, outside Lexington, where Simpson graduated from Woodford County High School. Simpson's mother's family were coal miners. Simpson is the first male on his mother's side of the family to not work in a strip mine or deep mine.
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- Turtles All The Way Down
- A Little Light
- All Around You
- Amarillo Highway
- Brace For Impact Live A Little
- Breakers Roar
- Call To Arms
- Could You Love Me One More Time
- Hero
- I Never Go Around Mirrors
- Id Have To Be Crazy
- In Bloom
- It Aint All Flowers
- Just Let Go
- Keep It Between The Lines
- Life Aint Fair And The World Is Mean
- Life Of Sin
- Living The Dream
- Long White Line
- Medicine Springs
- Oh Sarah
- Old King Coal
- Panbowl
- Poor Rambler
- Railroad Of Sin
- Sea Stories
- Sitting Here Without You
- Slim Slow Slider
- Some Days
- Sugar Daddy
- The Promise
- The Storm
- Time After All
- Voices
- Water In A Well
- Welcome To Earth Pollywog
- You Can Have The Crown
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"It Ain't All Flowers"
Sturgill Simpson
Metamodern Sounds in Country Music (2014)
[Intro]
1 + 2 + 3 + 4
Bm Bm7 Bm B7
[Verse 1]
B7
Cleaning out the darkest corners of my mind
D E
Taking all of my full circles, and making straight lines
B7
Been getting to the bottom of the bottom getting to me
D E
Holding up the mirror, to everything I don't want to see
D E B5
But it ain't all flowers, sometimes you gotta feel the thorns
D E B5
And when you play with the devil, you know you're gonna get the horns
B7 B7 B7
[Verse 2]
B7
Been dancing with the demons all my life
D E
Every time I find my grove, they cut in like a knife
B7
Been a sin eater since the day I was born
D E
Tired of feeling weighed down, from carrying 'round all the pain that keeps me torn
D E B5
So I pray when I lay me down to die
D E B5
Grab a glass of wine, and a seat to dine, and go ahead and eat the whole damn pie
B7 B7 B7 B7
[Interlude]
B7 D C#aug Em (x5)
e|----------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------2-----------2-----------4-------|
D|--------7--------4-----4-----3-----3-----5-----5----| x5
A|-----6-----6--5-----------4-----------7-------------|
E|--7-------------------------------------------------|
[Chorus]
D
It ain't all flowers
E B5
Sometimes you gotta smell the thorns
D E B5
And when you play with the devil, you know you're gonna get the horns
B7
Sturgill Simpson
Metamodern Sounds in Country Music (2014)
[Intro]
1 + 2 + 3 + 4
Bm Bm7 Bm B7
[Verse 1]
B7
Cleaning out the darkest corners of my mind
D E
Taking all of my full circles, and making straight lines
B7
Been getting to the bottom of the bottom getting to me
D E
Holding up the mirror, to everything I don't want to see
D E B5
But it ain't all flowers, sometimes you gotta feel the thorns
D E B5
And when you play with the devil, you know you're gonna get the horns
B7 B7 B7
[Verse 2]
B7
Been dancing with the demons all my life
D E
Every time I find my grove, they cut in like a knife
B7
Been a sin eater since the day I was born
D E
Tired of feeling weighed down, from carrying 'round all the pain that keeps me torn
D E B5
So I pray when I lay me down to die
D E B5
Grab a glass of wine, and a seat to dine, and go ahead and eat the whole damn pie
B7 B7 B7 B7
[Interlude]
B7 D C#aug Em (x5)
e|----------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------2-----------2-----------4-------|
D|--------7--------4-----4-----3-----3-----5-----5----| x5
A|-----6-----6--5-----------4-----------7-------------|
E|--7-------------------------------------------------|
[Chorus]
D
It ain't all flowers
E B5
Sometimes you gotta smell the thorns
D E B5
And when you play with the devil, you know you're gonna get the horns
B7
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