Rough On The Living

I wanna sing this song for a friend of ours
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 His picture was in all the papers
 They said that a legend had passed
 The late evenin' news did a special report
 And swore that his mem'ry would last
 They're playin' his records all weekend
 Praisin' the life that he lived
 Nashville is rough on the livin'
 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
 Braggin' bout sharin' his bed
 They didn't want him 'round when he's livin'
 But he showed a good friend when he's dead
 They observed twenty seconds of silence
 At the Opry on Saturday night
 And they're searchin' the bars and the basements
 For some souvenir of his life
 They're plannin' a book for September
 Showin' his plain country roots
 And they're sellin' the rights to the movie
 And the Hall of Fame's gettin' his boots
 At the funeral somebody recited a poem
 That told how he suffered and bled
 Nashville is rough on the livin'
 But she really speaks well of the dead
 Yeah, Nashville is rough on the livin'
 But she really speaks well of the dead