Snapshots: Life Is Good For A Guitar Man

(E) high school was a torture

(E) he never quite fit in

(E) the jocks & the geeks & the stoners

(E) they weren't what he called friends

(A) girls were on his radar screen

(A) but they just flew on by

(E) he learned what the teachers taught him

(E) but they never taught him why

(B7) but friday nights he'd step into

(A) a whole new different world ((3 beats on the bass drum))

(E) hammer-on, hammer-on, slide and a (A) strum

uncle (E) ted's on bass and the (B7) preacher's on (E) drums

(E) playing all night with a rag-tag (A) band

(E) life is good for a (B7) guitar (E) man

(D) heyyyyyyy (A) heyyyyyy (E) hey

(D) heyyyyyyy (A) heyyyyyy (B7) hey

(E) his sister went to college

(E) his brother went to work

(E) his daddy died in combat

(E) his mama went to church

(A) but work & school were not exactly

(A) what he'd had in mind

(E) so he went out and accepted any gig that he could find

(B7) from coffee shops to weddings he could

(A) always find a stage ((3 beats on the bass drum))

(E) hammer-on, hammer-on, slide and a (A) strum

(E) tucker's in the house, every- (B7) -body (E) come

(E) going on the road, playing one-night (A) stands

(E) life is good for a (B7) guitar (E) man

(D) heyyyyyyy (A) heyyyyyy (E) hey

(D) heyyyyyyy (A) heyyyyyy (B7) hey

(E) he didn't stay in Hiltons

(E) he didn't have a bus

(E) he never signed a record deal

(E) 'cause it wasn't worth the fuss

(A) he had no health insurance

(A) nor retirement plan

(E) he never files his taxes

(E) he's an independent man

(B7) he traded his tomorrows for a

(A) lifetime of todays ((3 beats on the bass drum))

(E) hammer-on, hammer-on, slide and a (A) strum

(E) i bet you know where he's (B7) coming from

(E) from tennessee to oregon and down to (A) louzianne

(E) life is good for a (B7) guitar (E) man

(E) life's sure good for a (B7) guitar (E) man

(E) i bet you wanna be a (B7) guitar (E) man