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Died A Rounder At Twenty-One
Recorded by Dale Evans
Written by Jimmie Skinner

C
He drank whiskey for his liver 

Smoked cigarettes for his lungs
             G7    C
He loved the women for his ego
          F       G7        C
He died a rounder at twenty-one

            F                C
He wouldn’t work down at the saw mill
            F                 C
He couldn’t stand that hot sunshine

He had twenty-one years of the real life
           F        G7      C
He lived a thousand in that time


One night when the blues had got him

He must have drank three fifths of rum
               G7          C
He got mean as hell when I told him
              F         G7     C
He’d wouldn’t live past twenty-one

         F               C
And if a man ever hit me harder
       F                   C
Well I don’t know where or when

He picked me up off that old bar floor
            F            G7      C
He said I’d sure like to be your friend


One night I saw him talkin’

To an old man at the bar
                G7     C
He said dad you know I love you
             F    G7        C
I just don’t like where you are

          F                C
Well tell momma to turn my lights on
         F               C
And turn down my feather bed

I’ll be twenty-one tomorrow
    F        G7     C
But tomorrow he was dead


It’s twenty-one miles to that graveyard

Where twenty-one roses read
              G7       C
They told the story of that rounder
       F          G7     C
Who at twenty-one he was dead

Repeat #1

          F       G7        C
He died a rounder at twenty-one

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