CHORDS: Larry Sparks – You Aint Lived Chords on Piano and Ukulele

These are You Aint Lived by Larry Sparks on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar & Keyboard.

[Intro 1]
G Gsus4 G  Gsus4

[Intro 2]
G    G     
D    D  D D 

[Verse 1]
       G   
If you never had a nickel pop 
     G
from Wesley Benson’s store
   G7     
or rolled a load of cotton\'
        C
 to the gin.
   D      
Or sat down on the front porch
    D
 of Golder Hartning’s store,
         C     
watching old men playing 
checkers
    C                   D 
and wondering who might win.

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[Verse 2]
   G    
Or took a sack of corn down 
   G
to Hartley Russell’s place
    G7   
and watched him as he ground
           C
 it in the mill.
    D   
And go back home and smell it
       D
 as it rises in the stove,
C                4    
good ol’ country boys know
         D
 God is real.

[Chorus] (Count 2)
          C           D     
You ain’t lived, boy,   you 
      G         G
ain’t lived,
   Em               Em          A7 
if hard times never kissed you,   
                D        D
nothing more to give.
   C              D   
If you ain’t seen granny take 
    G               Em
the smile on Sunday morn,
          C           D  
you ain’t lived, boy,   
          G        G
you ain’t lived.

[Interlude] (Mandolin)
C   D  G   Em   
C   D   
G   G  G   G  

[Verse 3]
       G    
If you never seen the sunrise 
            G
from the backside of a mule
   G7     
or worked down in the hot 
              C
field all the week.
   D      
Or saw revival come to our
D
little country church,
C      
watching the baptising down
     C          D
the Custameeda creek.

[Verse 4]
       G    
If you never had a biscuit
      G
from mama’s whole food store
   G7     
or watched her taking butter
          C
from the churn.
   D    
Or seen her taking flour sacks
     D
 and turn them into shirts,
C                             D
fashion never was her main concern.

[End-Chorus]
          C           D  
You ain’t lived, boy,   
          G         G
you ain’t lived,
   Em               Em  
if hard times never kissed you,
A7                 D      D
   nothing more to give.
   C              D
If you ain’t seen granny 
         G               Em
take the smile on Sunday morn,
          C           D 
you ain’t lived, boy,   
          G        G
you ain’t lived.

[Outro]
C    D  G  Em     
C    D    G  G