C               G7         C
His picture was in all the papers

They said that a legend had passed
    F
The late evening news did a special report
                                C
And swore that his memory would last


They're playing his records all weekend
             C7           F
Praising the life that he lived
                          C
Nashville is rough on the living
        G7                        C
But she really speaks well of the dead

                   G7          C
The wife that they interviewed cried

Is the same one who left him last fall
        F
And the record producer who called him a hero
                                   C
Is the one who wouldn't answer his calls


The ladies they sit over coffee
         C7               F
Bragging bout sharing his bed
                                      C
They didn't want him around when he's living
         G7                           C
But he's sure a good friend when he's dead

     F                          C
They observed twenty seconds of silence
       G7               C
At the Opry on Saturday night
    F                                  C
And they're searching the bars and the basements
    D7                   G7
For some souvenir of his life

        C          G7       C
They're planning a book for September

Showing his plain country roots
    F
Any they're selling the rights to the movie
                                   C
And the Hall of Fame's getting his boots


At the funeral somebody recited a poem
              C7              F
That told how he suffered and bled
                          C
Nashville is rough on the living
        G7                        C
But she really speaks well of the dead

     F                         C
Yeah Nashville is rough on the living
        G7                        C
But she really speaks well of the dead