Utah Phillips - All Used Up Chords

[Verse 1]
D                            A
I spent my whole life making somebody rich,
  G                      A
I busted my ass for that son-of-a-bitich,
       D                     G
and he left me to die like a dog in a ditch
    D          A          D
and told me I'm all used up.
   G                    D
He used up my labor, he used up my time,
   G                     A
He plundered my body and squandered my mind
    D                     G
and gave me a pension of handouts and wine
    D           A        D
and told me I'm all used up.


[Verse 2]
   D                     A
My kids are in hock to a God you call work
G                           A
Slaving their lives out for some ohter jerk
   D                       G
My youngest in Frisco just made shipping clerk
       D              A        D
And he don't know I'm all used up
G                         D
Young people reaching for power and gold
G                      A
Don't have respect for anything old
    D                              G
For pennies they're bought and for promises sold
    D           A           D
Someday they'll all be used up


[Verse 3]
D                         A
They use up the oil, they use up the trees,
     G                        A
they use up the air, and they use up the sea,
     D                        G
Well how about you friend and how about me?
       D               A        D
What's left when we're all used up?
     G                      D
I'll finish my life in this crummy hotel.
     G                       A
It's lousy with bugs, and my God, what a smell!
       D                            G
But my plumbing still works and I'm clear as a bell.
      D           A        D
Don't tell me I'm all used up!


[Verse 4]
D                     A
Outside my window the world passes by
   G                      A
It gives me a handout and spits in my eye
    D                         G
And no one can tell me 'cause no one knows why
    D              A        D
I'm livin' but I'm all used up
    G                    D
Sometimes in my dreams I sit by a tree
   G                     A
My life is a book of how things used to be
    D                           G
And kids gather 'round and they listedn to me
         D              A        D
And they don't know I'm all used up


[Verse 5]
            G                              D
And there's songs and there's laughter and things I can do,
    G                           A
and all that I've learned I can give back to you,
    D                           G
I'd give my last breath just to make it come true,
D           A       D
No, I'm not all used up.
     G                       D
They use up the oil and they use up the trees,
     G                       A
They use up the air and they use up the sea,
      D                         G
Well, how about you friend, and how about me?
       D               A        D
What's left when we're all used up?