Things In Life

Ricky Skaggs

Written by Don Stover

Key of C · Chords: I IV

Verse 1

C                               F
Look up look down this lonesome road
                        C
Hang down your head and cry
                                 F
For we often lose some things in life
                     C
That makes us wonder why

Verse 2

                           F
Oh the fairest love I ever had
                       C
Now sleeps beneath the clay
                              F
I live in hopes and dreams of her
                         C
That well meet again someday

Verse 3

                        F
I often said and wonder why
                    C
Life has to be this way
                          F
But after all is said and done
                     C
I’m sure God has His say

Verse 4

                               F
I’d like to be a small part of life
                          C
With some good things to achieve
                                   F
Just to know I’ve been a fruitless part
                         C
Would give my poor heart grief

Verse 5

                              F
Now when they lower my casket down
                         C
It’s a lonesome grave to rest
                                 F
And you take one last look at my face
                      C
You can say I done my best