[Intro]
D G D A D


[Verse 1]
               D                         G
Helped save an alien when I was just thirteen
            D                        A
Shot down a helicopter yellin’ wolverines
        D                            G
Recited Robert Frost staring at the sun
        D                     A                 D
Held my ground at the Devil’s Den with an empty gun
           D                     G
Smoked marijuana with Cheech and Chong
           D                     A
Survived a plane crash in the Amazon
            D                            G
Ann-Margret made love to me on A Tiger’s Tale
        D           A                     D
Spent a lifetime in prison hoping to make bail


[Chorus]
                 G                      D
It’s a hell of a life, the one that I’m livin’
             G                                A
I gotta keep moving on, doin’ the best that I can
                 G                            D        E
Do a little less hurtin’ and a little more forgivin’
       G                      A                 D
‘Cause son that’s the kind of life that makes a man


[Verse 2]
          D                   G
Spent two years with my buddy Swayze
     D                                 A
Even taught him how to rope and how to ride
             D                                     G
You might’ve missed that one we did with Jamie Lee Curtis
       D               A               D
But it had some lovely benefits on the side
           D                       G
I played a killer on TV called The Reaper
       D                                  A
That a lot of folks have come to love and hate
       D                               G
Well I guess if I had to pick me out a favorite
     D                   A             D
It’d still be the little Greaser from ’68


[Chorus]
                 G                      D
It’s a hell of a life, the one that I’m livin’
             G                                A
I gotta keep moving on, doin’ the best that I can
                 G                             D      E
Do a little less hurtin’ and a little more forgivin’
       G                      A                 D
‘Cause son that’s the kind of life that makes a man


[Verse 3]
               G                               D
Fought me some dinosaurs in the land that time forgot
       G                         A
I went back to the future before Michael J. Fox


[Bridge]
       D                             G
Well I made that boy I was a million dollars
D                           A
Way before he turned twenty one
       D                   D7            G
Well I spent every dime at least a dozen times
      D             A                       D
But I won’t ever be accused of never having fun
                                             G
The wife is gone, the kids are grown and I’m on my own
    D                                 A
I’m starting over trying to write and sing
        D                             G
Looking back if I had to live my life all over again
  D                A                D
I swear I wouldn’t change a goddamn thing


Chrous:
          G                        D
Hell of a life, the one that we’re livin’
             G                                A
I gotta keep moving on, doin’ the best that I can
                 G                             D     E
Do a little less hurtin’ and a little more forgivin’
       G                      A                 D    E
‘Cause son that’s the kind of life that makes a man
        G                    A                   D
I said, son that’s the kinda life that’ll make a man


[Outro]
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