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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"Life Ain't Fair and the World is Mean"
Sturgill Simpson
High Top Mountain (2013)
Intro:
B7 A7 E
E |-------------------------|----------------------------|-------|
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D |-------------------------|----------------------------|-------|
A |-----------------0-------|--2-----------0-------------|-------|
E |--0--3-----4-------------|-----------------------3b---|--0----|
Verse 1:
E
Well that label man said son now can you sing a little bit more clear
E
Your voice might be too genuine and your song's a little too sincere
E A7 E
Can you sing a little more about outlaws and the way things used to be
E (once) B7 (once) (fill 1)
He told me you just worry about writing them songs leaving everything else to me
Verse 2:
E
Daddy was a Highwayman but he never wrote any old country songs
E
Papaw never stayed out raising hell til the break of dawn
E A7 E
But he raised a proud coal miners daughter and I'm proud to be her son
E (once) B7 (once) (fill 2)
She told me boy I don't care if you hit it big, cause you’re already #1
Chorus:
A7 E
That's the way it goes in this day & age
E B7
You ain't gotta read between the lines you just gotta turn the page
A7 E
Well the most outlaw thing that I've ever done was give a good woman a ring
E B7 E
But that's the way it goes, life ain't fair and the world is mean
Solo:
|A7 |E A7 |E B7 |E |
Verse 3:
E
Well I still got the wife and the dog but I swapped the truck out for a van
E
Gonna hit the road find the end of that long white line in the promise land
E A7 E
Won’t hear my song on the radio cause that new sounds all the rage
E B7 (once) (fill 2)
But you can always find me in a smokey bar with bad sound and a dim lit stage
Chorus:
A7 E
That's the way it goes in this day & age
E B7
You ain't gotta read between the lines you just gotta turn the page
A7 E
Well the most outlaw thing that I've ever done was give a good woman a ring
E B7 E
But that's the way it goes, life ain't fair and the world is mean
E B7 (fill 3)
But that's the way it goes, life ain't fair and the world is mean
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Sturgill Simpson
High Top Mountain (2013)
Intro:
B7 A7 E
E |-------------------------|----------------------------|-------|
B |-------------------------|----------------------------|-------|
G |-------------------------|----------------------------|-------|
D |-------------------------|----------------------------|-------|
A |-----------------0-------|--2-----------0-------------|-------|
E |--0--3-----4-------------|-----------------------3b---|--0----|
Verse 1:
E
Well that label man said son now can you sing a little bit more clear
E
Your voice might be too genuine and your song's a little too sincere
E A7 E
Can you sing a little more about outlaws and the way things used to be
E (once) B7 (once) (fill 1)
He told me you just worry about writing them songs leaving everything else to me
Verse 2:
E
Daddy was a Highwayman but he never wrote any old country songs
E
Papaw never stayed out raising hell til the break of dawn
E A7 E
But he raised a proud coal miners daughter and I'm proud to be her son
E (once) B7 (once) (fill 2)
She told me boy I don't care if you hit it big, cause you’re already #1
Chorus:
A7 E
That's the way it goes in this day & age
E B7
You ain't gotta read between the lines you just gotta turn the page
A7 E
Well the most outlaw thing that I've ever done was give a good woman a ring
E B7 E
But that's the way it goes, life ain't fair and the world is mean
Solo:
|A7 |E A7 |E B7 |E |
Verse 3:
E
Well I still got the wife and the dog but I swapped the truck out for a van
E
Gonna hit the road find the end of that long white line in the promise land
E A7 E
Won’t hear my song on the radio cause that new sounds all the rage
E B7 (once) (fill 2)
But you can always find me in a smokey bar with bad sound and a dim lit stage
Chorus:
A7 E
That's the way it goes in this day & age
E B7
You ain't gotta read between the lines you just gotta turn the page
A7 E
Well the most outlaw thing that I've ever done was give a good woman a ring
E B7 E
But that's the way it goes, life ain't fair and the world is mean
E B7 (fill 3)
But that's the way it goes, life ain't fair and the world is mean
Fill 1:
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--2-----1--0----------|-------|
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Fill 2:
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Fill 3:
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