{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1726541,"song":"I Never Expected","artist":"Mel Tillis","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11367585-i-never-expected-chords-by-mel-tillis/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1726541?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"\"I Never Expected\" written by Shel Silverstein. Recorded by Mel Tillis and the Old Dogs \r\n(Mel Tillis, Bobby Bare, Waylon Jennings and Jerry Reed) on the 1998 album \"Old Dogs Vol. 2\"\r\n\r\n\r\nSpoken\r\n\r\nNow friends I'd like to make...a short address,\r\nto those who lived furious and fast.\r\nSo let me take off my coat and clear my throat,\r\nand finish what's left in my glass\r\n\r\nYou see standing before you a barely living example\r\nOf the wild life's (say it Mel, Say it)\r\n(gulp) do's and don'ts\r\nBut the danger is not that the fast life's gonna kill you\r\nThe real danger is that it won't\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI never expected to last this long[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]                                          \r\nIt caught me completely by surprise[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nI put aside enough to let me live just fine[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                [ch]G[/ch] \r\nBut I never guessed I'd last past 49[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nI thought by now my friends would be toasting my memory[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhile the Devil was toasting my souL[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nOh but it's just my luck, I outlived my bucks[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]G[/ch] \r\nIt's the saddest story ever told[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOh, how could I have got this old[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                                         [ch]F[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHey Mel, you should have bought a piece of the rock...Or a no risk retirement plan[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]F[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]A7[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]   \r\nBut instead I invested in all night bars, slow dancing ladies, fast moving cars[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                                         [ch]F[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI thought by now I'd be safe resting peaceful in my grave due to all the women and song[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nSo I'd made no preparations for a drawn out situation[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                          \r\nHow could you have been so wrong?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI never dreamed I'd last this long[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nLive fast, die young have a good lookin' corpse[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThat's the motto we live so well[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nSo I played it hard and high but somehow I didn't die[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I think my corpse is gonna look like hell[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd the slight miscalculation on the date of my expiration[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nLeft me singing this sad, sad song[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                                 [ch]C[/ch]                           [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nSo buddy can you spare a quarter, I'm living longer than I oughter[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nHow could you have been so wrong?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI never thought i'd last this long[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A7[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nPour me the metamucl[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nNever thought I'd Last this long[/tab]","plain_text":"\"I Never Expected\" written by Shel Silverstein. Recorded by Mel Tillis and the Old Dogs \n(Mel Tillis, Bobby Bare, Waylon Jennings and Jerry Reed) on the 1998 album \"Old Dogs Vol. 2\"\n\n\nSpoken\n\nNow friends I'd like to make...a short address,\nto those who lived furious and fast.\nSo let me take off my coat and clear my throat,\nand finish what's left in my glass\n\nYou see standing before you a barely living example\nOf the wild life's (say it Mel, Say it)\n(gulp) do's and don'ts\nBut the danger is not that the fast life's gonna kill you\nThe real danger is that it won't","chords":["G","C","F","A7","D","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"A7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,0,2,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,2,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}