| After an unsuccessful search to find the sheet music for this song , I decided to |
| figure them out the chords on my own. Good or bad here they are. Sorry Hank. |
| This is a Word file, the chord positioning has been adjusted for the email. |
| Barry Hawkins |
| Living Proof |
| D | |
| I'm going to quit singing all these sad songs |
| G | D | |
| Cause I can't stand the pain |
| E | A7 | |
| Oh the life I sing about now and one I live is the same |
| D | G | D | |
| When I sang them old songs of daddies seems like every one comes true |
| A7 | D | |
| Lord please help me do I have to be the Living Proof |
| D | G | D | |
| Why just the other night after the show an old drunk came up me |
| E | A7 | |
| He say's you ain't good as your daddy boy and you never will be |
| D | G | D | |
| Then a young girl in old blue jeans say's I am your biggest fan |
| D | A7 | D | |
| It is a good thing I was born Gemini cause I'am living for more than one man |
| D | |
| Remember Jim and Hank and Johnny |
| G | D | |
| They were in the summer of life |
| D | E | A7 | |
| When you called them away lord, I don' t want pay that price |
| D | |
| Don't let my son ever touch a guitar |
| G | D | |
| May he never sing the blues |
| D | A7 | D | |
| Let him be free don't make him be more living proof |
| D | G | D | |
| I don't want to be a legend, I just want be a man |
| E | A7 | |
| But lord you know sometimes I have needed a help hand |
| D | G | D | |
| It ain't be so easy lately, I have had to go it on my own |
| A7 | D | |
| But I have always had anything I have ever wanted except a home |
| I'm going to quit singing all them sad songs |
| G | D | |
| Cause I can't stand the pain |
| E | A7 | |
| Oh the life I sing to you about and one I live is the same |
| D | G | D | |
| Yes I have sang those old songs of daddies now it seems they have all come true |
| D | A7 | D | |
| Lord please help me do I have be the Living Proof |
| D | A7 | D | |
| Lord please help me I don't want to be the Living Proof |