Jim Lauderdale Some Things Are Too Good To Last by Jim Lauderdale
Jim Lauderdale vocals/guitar
Emmylou Harris harmony vocals
Al Perkins steel guitar
Buddy Miller guitar
Larry Knechtel piano
Donald Lindley drums
John Ciamboti bass
Pat Buchanan acoustic guitar
Billy Bremner acoustic guitar
A Amaj7 D
Lovers leave and don't come back
E A
Passions wait to live again
C#m D
Shooting stars fall with the rest
E A
Some things are too good to last
A Amaj7 D
Flowers by another name
E A
Live again in memory
C#m D
Burning hearts that run too fast
E A
You were just too good to last
C#m D
I can keep for sure
C#m D E
What we had out of this world
A Amaj7 D
When your tears would warm my smile
E A
I knew heaven for awhile
C#m D
The better part of a short past
E A
We were just too good to last
SOLO
C#m D
I can keep for sure
C#m D E
What we had out of this world
A Amaj7 D
Lovers leave and don't come back
E A
Passions wait to live again
C#m D
Rainbows fade out with the rest
E A
We were just to good to last
C#m D
Burning hearts that run too fast
E D A D E A
Some things are too good to last
>From Jim Lauderdale "Persimmons"
Upstart Records 1996
Mighty Nice Music/Laudersongs(BMI)
