Chords for I Never Expected - Mel Tillis and the Old Dogs
Tempo:
101.25 bpm
Chords used:
F
C
Bb
G
D
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[Fm] Now friends, I'd like to [Gm] make [Am] a short [Bb] address to those who live [C] curious and [F] fast.
So let [Bb] me take off [Dm] my coat and clear my [Cm] throat [D] and finish [G] what's left in my glass.
[C]
You [F] see standing before you are [Gm] barely living [F] examples of the wild [Bb] [Dm]
[F] life's [C] do's and [F] don'ts.
[Bb] But the danger is not that [F] the fast glass is going to [D] kill you.
The [G] real danger is that it won't.
[C]
[F] [C] I [F] never expected to last this long.
[Bb] It caught me [C] completely by [F] surprise.
[Bb] I'd put aside enough to let [F] me live just [D] fine.
[G] But I never guessed I'd [C] last past forty-nine.
[F]
Now my friends would be toast in my memory [Bb] while the devil [C] roasted my [F] soul.
Oh [Bb] but it's just my luck [F] I've lived my [D] bucks.
[G] It's the saddest story ever told.
Lord, [C] how could I have got this [F] old?
[C] Hey man, [F] you should have bought some stock or a piece of the rock [Bb] or a no-rip [C] retirement [F] plank.
But [Bb] instead I invested [F] in all-night [D] bars, [G] shore dancing ladies, [C] fast food and golf.
[F] I thought by now I'd be safe, rest and peaceful in my [Bb] grave due to [C] wine and women [F] and so on.
So [Bb] I've made no preparations [F] for a drawn-out [D] situation.
[G]
How could you have been so wrong?
[C] I never dreamed I'd last [F] this long.
[Bb]
[G] [F] [D] [G]
[C] [F] [C] [F]
Live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse.
[Bb] That's the motto, [C] we live [F] so well.
[Bb] So I played it hard and high, [F] but somehow I [D] didn't die.
[G] And I think my corpse is [C] gonna look like hell.
[F] And the slightest calculation on the date of my expiration [Bb] left me singing [C] just a sad, [F] sad song.
[Bb] So buddy, can you spare a quarter?
[F] I'm living longer [D] than I order.
[G]
How could you have been so wrong?
[C] I never thought I'd last [F] this long. [D] Oh boy.
[G] I never [C] thought it'd last [F] this long.
[D] That's me, the man of [G] music.
Never [C] thought I'd last [F] this long.
So let [Bb] me take off [Dm] my coat and clear my [Cm] throat [D] and finish [G] what's left in my glass.
[C]
You [F] see standing before you are [Gm] barely living [F] examples of the wild [Bb] [Dm]
[F] life's [C] do's and [F] don'ts.
[Bb] But the danger is not that [F] the fast glass is going to [D] kill you.
The [G] real danger is that it won't.
[C]
[F] [C] I [F] never expected to last this long.
[Bb] It caught me [C] completely by [F] surprise.
[Bb] I'd put aside enough to let [F] me live just [D] fine.
[G] But I never guessed I'd [C] last past forty-nine.
[F]
Now my friends would be toast in my memory [Bb] while the devil [C] roasted my [F] soul.
Oh [Bb] but it's just my luck [F] I've lived my [D] bucks.
[G] It's the saddest story ever told.
Lord, [C] how could I have got this [F] old?
[C] Hey man, [F] you should have bought some stock or a piece of the rock [Bb] or a no-rip [C] retirement [F] plank.
But [Bb] instead I invested [F] in all-night [D] bars, [G] shore dancing ladies, [C] fast food and golf.
[F] I thought by now I'd be safe, rest and peaceful in my [Bb] grave due to [C] wine and women [F] and so on.
So [Bb] I've made no preparations [F] for a drawn-out [D] situation.
[G]
How could you have been so wrong?
[C] I never dreamed I'd last [F] this long.
[Bb]
[G] [F] [D] [G]
[C] [F] [C] [F]
Live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse.
[Bb] That's the motto, [C] we live [F] so well.
[Bb] So I played it hard and high, [F] but somehow I [D] didn't die.
[G] And I think my corpse is [C] gonna look like hell.
[F] And the slightest calculation on the date of my expiration [Bb] left me singing [C] just a sad, [F] sad song.
[Bb] So buddy, can you spare a quarter?
[F] I'm living longer [D] than I order.
[G]
How could you have been so wrong?
[C] I never thought I'd last [F] this long. [D] Oh boy.
[G] I never [C] thought it'd last [F] this long.
[D] That's me, the man of [G] music.
Never [C] thought I'd last [F] this long.
Key:
F
C
Bb
G
D
F
C
Bb
[Fm] Now friends, I'd like to [Gm] make [Am] a short [Bb] address to those who live [C] _ curious and [F] fast. _
_ So let [Bb] me take off [Dm] my coat and clear my [Cm] throat [D] and finish [G] what's left in my glass.
[C] _ _
_ You [F] see standing before you are [Gm] barely living [F] examples of the wild [Bb] _ _ [Dm] _
[F] life's _ [C] do's and [F] don'ts. _ _
[Bb] But the danger is not that [F] the fast glass is going to [D] kill you.
The [G] real danger is that it won't.
[C] _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] [C] I [F] never expected to last this long.
[Bb] It caught me [C] completely by [F] surprise.
_ [Bb] I'd put aside enough to let [F] me live just [D] fine.
[G] But I never guessed I'd [C] last past forty-nine.
[F]
Now my friends would be toast in my memory [Bb] while the devil [C] roasted my [F] soul.
_ Oh [Bb] but it's just my luck [F] I've lived my [D] bucks.
[G] It's the saddest story ever told.
_ Lord, [C] how could I have got this [F] old?
[C] Hey man, [F] you should have bought some stock or a piece of the rock [Bb] or a no-rip [C] retirement [F] plank.
But [Bb] instead I invested [F] in all-night [D] bars, [G] shore dancing ladies, [C] fast food and golf.
[F] I thought by now I'd be safe, rest and peaceful in my [Bb] grave due to [C] wine and women [F] and so on.
So [Bb] I've made no preparations [F] for a drawn-out [D] situation.
[G]
How could you have been so wrong?
_ [C] I never dreamed I'd last [F] this long.
_ _ [Bb] _
_ _ [G] _ [F] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _
_ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ [F]
Live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse.
[Bb] That's the motto, [C] we live [F] so well.
_ [Bb] So I played it hard and high, [F] but somehow I [D] didn't die.
[G] And I think my corpse is [C] gonna look like hell.
[F] And the slightest calculation on the date of my expiration [Bb] left me singing [C] just a sad, [F] sad song.
_ [Bb] So buddy, can you spare a quarter?
[F] I'm living longer [D] than I order.
[G]
How could you have been so wrong?
_ [C] I never thought I'd last [F] this long. [D] Oh boy.
[G] I never [C] thought it'd last [F] this long.
[D] That's me, the man of [G] music.
Never [C] thought I'd last [F] this long. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ So let [Bb] me take off [Dm] my coat and clear my [Cm] throat [D] and finish [G] what's left in my glass.
[C] _ _
_ You [F] see standing before you are [Gm] barely living [F] examples of the wild [Bb] _ _ [Dm] _
[F] life's _ [C] do's and [F] don'ts. _ _
[Bb] But the danger is not that [F] the fast glass is going to [D] kill you.
The [G] real danger is that it won't.
[C] _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] [C] I [F] never expected to last this long.
[Bb] It caught me [C] completely by [F] surprise.
_ [Bb] I'd put aside enough to let [F] me live just [D] fine.
[G] But I never guessed I'd [C] last past forty-nine.
[F]
Now my friends would be toast in my memory [Bb] while the devil [C] roasted my [F] soul.
_ Oh [Bb] but it's just my luck [F] I've lived my [D] bucks.
[G] It's the saddest story ever told.
_ Lord, [C] how could I have got this [F] old?
[C] Hey man, [F] you should have bought some stock or a piece of the rock [Bb] or a no-rip [C] retirement [F] plank.
But [Bb] instead I invested [F] in all-night [D] bars, [G] shore dancing ladies, [C] fast food and golf.
[F] I thought by now I'd be safe, rest and peaceful in my [Bb] grave due to [C] wine and women [F] and so on.
So [Bb] I've made no preparations [F] for a drawn-out [D] situation.
[G]
How could you have been so wrong?
_ [C] I never dreamed I'd last [F] this long.
_ _ [Bb] _
_ _ [G] _ [F] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _
_ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ [F]
Live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse.
[Bb] That's the motto, [C] we live [F] so well.
_ [Bb] So I played it hard and high, [F] but somehow I [D] didn't die.
[G] And I think my corpse is [C] gonna look like hell.
[F] And the slightest calculation on the date of my expiration [Bb] left me singing [C] just a sad, [F] sad song.
_ [Bb] So buddy, can you spare a quarter?
[F] I'm living longer [D] than I order.
[G]
How could you have been so wrong?
_ [C] I never thought I'd last [F] this long. [D] Oh boy.
[G] I never [C] thought it'd last [F] this long.
[D] That's me, the man of [G] music.
Never [C] thought I'd last [F] this long. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _