歌曲名 Rough On The Living

歌手名 Bobby Bare

作词：Shel Silverstein

作曲：Shel Silverstein

I wanna sing this song for a friend of ours

His picture was in all the papers

They said that a legend had passed

The late evening news did a special report

And swore that his memory would last

They're playing his records all weekend

Praising the life that he lived

Nashville is rough on the living

But she really speaks well of the dead

The wife that they interviewed cried

Is the same one who left him last fall

And the record producer who called him a hero

Is the one who wouldn't answer his calls

The ladies they sit over coffee

Bragging about sharing his bed

They didn't want him around when he's living

But he's sure a good friend when he's dead

They observed twenty seconds of silence

At the Opry on Saturday night

And they're searching the bars and the basements

For some souvenir of his life

They're planning a book for September

Showing his plain country roots

Any they're selling the rights to the movie

And the Hall of Fame's getting his boots

At the funeral somebody recited a poem

That told how he suffered and bled

Nashville is rough on the living

But she really speaks well of the dead

Yeah Nashville is rough on the living

But she really speaks well of the dead