C                   E7
Well I grew up in a real town
          Am               F
Where the prom queen had a plastic crown 
       C               E7
And we really did just drive around 
             Am             F
‘Cause there wasn’t sh!t to do
   C                   E7
We didn’t know we were real broke 
Am                F
Daddy rolled them real smokes
         C      E7
We drank RC, no real Coke
        Am             F
But our neighbor had a pool

[Pre-Chorus]
C             E7                 Am
 We got green grass and two trees 
     F
Whoa oh oh oh oh
C                  E7           Am
 But it ain’t like what’s on TV 
     F
Whoa oh oh oh oh

[Chorus]
        C       E7       Am        F
This is real life in the real world
         C             E7
We ain’t talking to no models
       Am      F
We got real girls
       C      E7        Am       F
We get real low, we get real high
          C       E7            Am      F
It ain’t all good baby but it’s all right 
       C    E7    Am    F
Real life
C  E7  Am   F
na na na na

[Verse]
          C
We got a dive bar
       E7                   Am
With a real band, they play too loud
            F
And they’re real bad
           C                    E7
But we’re real boys so we still dance
        Am              F
And we stay out way too late
        C                     E7
Hit the Waffle House for some real food
         Am              F
But that waitress, she’s real rude
         C                E7
She got real problems but we do too
       Am       F
So we tip her anyway

[Pre-Chorus]
C                E7            Am
 That’s just the way that it is 
F
Whoa oh oh oh oh
C                E7            Am 
 That’s just the way that we live
F
Whoa oh oh oh oh

[Chorus]
        C       E7       Am        F
This is real life in the real world
         C             E7
We ain’t talking to no models
       Am      F
We got real girls
       C      E7        Am       F
We get real low, we get real high
          C       E7            Am      F
It ain’t all good baby but it’s all right 
       C    E7    Am    F
Real life
           C       E7       Am      F
Yeah we’re livin’ real life

[Bridge]
        C              E7
We find real love, get real hurt 
      Am              F
Fall real hard, shake off the dirt 
F                  E7
Pray to God, let’s make a deal 
Am          F
 I guess it just got real

C         E7       Am   F
na na na na na na
C         E7       Am   F
na na na na na na 

[Chorus]
       C      E7        Am       F
We get real low, we get real high
         C        E7             Am     F
It ain’t all good baby but it’s all right
      C    E7   
Real life    
               Am               F     C     E7   Am   F
This ain’t no fairy tale, it’s real life