Merle Haggard

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"Goodbye Lefty"

"Goodbye Lefty"


I'd love to hear a jukebox play I love you a thousand ways
Or if you've got the money I've got the time
I'd walk a mile for mom and dad and the good times that we had
Look what thoughts will do when you sing old pal of mine.

But the old old man is gone, there'll be no more Lefty songs
And how much he meant to me nobody knows
The long black veil that Alice wore like words he sang some years before
She loved him too that's the way love goes.

But the old old man is gone, there'll be no more Lefty songs
And how much he meant to me nobody knows
The long black veil that Alice wore like words he sang some years before
She loved him too that's the way love goes...

 

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"Got A Letter From My Kid"

"Got A Letter From My Kid"


Got a letter from my kid today
They let me read a line or two
I lost my teddy bear, I can't remember where
Daddy is he there with you?

In the letter he goes on to say
I'm so excited daddy dear
I found a little pup, I washed and brushed him up
Tell me can I keep him here?

Daddy here's my puupy's picture
Don't you think he looks like me
We could be so happy
Only, without you it's lonely.

That's the letter from my kid today
Gee it makes me kinda blue
I know exactly how the kid is feeling now
'Cause I get mighty lonely too.

Daddy here's my puupy picture
Don't you think he looks like me
We could be so happy
Only, without you it's lonely.

That's the letter from my kid today
Gee it makes me kinda blue
I know exactly how the kid is feeling now
'Cause I get mighty lonely too...

 

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"Got Lonely Too Early (This Morning)"

"Got Lonely Too Early (This Morning)"


Got lonely too early this mornin'
Long about 3:30 am
Woke up in a big empty bed room
The TV had gone off again

Got lonely too early this morning
Hey, lonely was laying like dirt
Got lonely too early this morning
Before I was ready to hurt

I try to stay clear, call her ol' friends
Stopping to thinking of you
I try not to bother you, darling
'Cause I know that you don't want me too

Try to look over me calling this morning
I know it's on wrong time of day
But I just had to talk to somebody
You know I can't find nothing to say

But baby, it got lonely too early this morning
A long about 3:30 am
Woke up in a big empty bed room
The TV had gone off again

Got lonely too early this morning
Hey, hey, lonely was laying like dirt
Got lonely too early this morning
Before I was ready to hurt

 

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"Grandma Harp"

"Grandma Harp"


Grandma's maiden name was Zombelines
There's ninety years to tell about in a few short lines
Born in Newton County down in Arkansas
Then in nineteen-one she married Grandpa

We laid her soul to rest one Sunday mornin'
And everybody knew she'd done her part
Don't get set to hear no hidden family legend
Just a song about the life of Grandma Harp

Just think about the times that she lived through
And think about the changing world she saw
Now somehow she reared a decent family out of poverty
And for seventy years she loved the same old Grandpa

To me, her passing brought a closing chapter
To a way of life that I love within my heart
I just mean to say I think we owe her something special
If just a song about the life of Grandma Harp

Grandma's maiden name was Zombelines
There's ninety years to tell about in a few short lines
Born in Newton County down in Arkansas
Then in nineteen-one she married Grandpa

We laid her soul to rest one Sunday mornin'
And everybody knew she'd done her part
Don't get set to hear no hidden family legend
Just a song about the life of Grandma Harp

 

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"Grandma's Homemade Christmas Card"

"Grandma's Homemade Christmas Card"


The family once received a homemade Christmas card
And everyone was thrilled to read the verse inside
'Cause every line was printed where the print should be
And grandma's name was neatly signed with pride.

It simply read my prayers and thoughts are with you
And all my Christmas wishes are for real
And I'm just good enough at poetry to make it rhyme
And also to let you know the way I feel.

Grandma's homemade Christmas card from long ago
Hangs proudly in the tree top with the tinsel snow
It's the only Christmas card that we keep from year to year
Yep, grandma's homemade Christmas is always here...

 

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"Green, Green Grass Of Home"

"Green, Green Grass Of Home"


The old hometown looks the same as I step down from the train
And there to meet me is my mama and papa
Down the lane I look and there runs Mary hair of gold and lips like cherries
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home.

The old house is still standing though the paint is cracked and dry
There's the old oak tree that I used to play on
Down the lane I walk with my sweet Mary hair of gold and lips like cherries
It's so good to touch the green, green grass of home.

Yes they'll all come to meet me arms a reached smiling sweetly
It's so good to touch the green, green grass of home.

Then I awake and look around me at the four grey walls that surround me
And I realized that I was only dreaming
For there's a guard and there's that sad old padre
Arm in arm we'll walk at daybreak
And again I'll touch the green, green grass of home.

Yes, they'll all come to see me in the shade of that old oak tree
As they lay me neath the green, green grass of home...

 

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"Gypsy"

"Gypsy"


In a quaint caravan
There's a lady they call the gypsy
She can look in the future
And dry away all your tears.

Everything will come right
If you'll only believe the gypsy
You could tell at a glance
That my heart was so full of fears.

She looked at my hand and told me
That my lover was always true
But deep in my heart I knew, dear
Somebody else was kissing you.

But I'll go there again
'Cause I want to believe the gypsy
That my lover is true
And will come back to me someday.

She looked at my hand and told me
That my lover was always true
But deep in my heart I knew, dear
Somebody else was kissing you

But I'll go there again
'Cause I want to believe the gypsy
That my lover is true
And will come back to me someday.

That my lover is true
And will come back to me someday...

 

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"Hag's Dixie Blues, No. 2"

"Hag's Dixie Blues, No. 2"


I got the blues for Mississippi I got the blues for Tennessee
Anywhere south there'd be Dixon line it's where I long to be
When I get a lonesome feeling down in my rambling shoes
Head down stream towards New Orleans cause I got the Dixie blues.

Talk about Memphis, talk about the town
Thinkin' 'bout my southern belle
Talk about Chicago where the cold wind blows
There ain't got chance and well.

I got the blues for Georgia Carolina's callin' me
I'm gonna pack my grip and I'll be gone like a southwind blowing free
When I get a lonesome feeling down in my rambling shoes
I head down stream towards New Orleans cause I got the Dixie blues, yes.

Talk about Memphis, talk about the town
Thinkin' 'bout my southern belle
Talk about Chicago where the cold wind blows
There ain't got chance and well.

When I get the blues for Georgia Carolina's callin' me
I'm gonna pack my grip and I'll be gone like a southwind blowing free
When I get a lonesome feeling down in my rambling shoes
I head down stream towards New Orleans cause I got the Dixie blues, yes...

 

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"Half A Man"

"Half A Man"


If I only had one arm to hold you well better yet if I had none at all
Then I wouldn't have two arms that ache for you
And I'd have one less mem'ry to recall
If I only had one ear to listen to the lies that you told to me
Then I would more closely resemble the half a man that you've made of me.

And if I only had one leg to stand on
Then how much how much truer picture you'd see
And then I would more closely resamble the half of man
that you've made of me
Yeah, then I would more closely resamble the half of man
that you've made of me...

 

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"He Walks With Me (In The Garden)"

"He Walks With Me (In The Garden)"


I come to the garden alone
While the dew is still on the roses
And the voice I hear falling on my ear
The son of God discloses.

And he walks with me and he talks with me
And he tells me I am his own
And the joy we share as we tarry there
None other has ever known.

He speaks and the sound of his voice is so sweet
The birds hush their singing
And the melody that he gave to me
Within my heart is ringing.

And he walks with me and he talks with me
And he tells me I am his own
And the joy we share as we tarry there
None other has ever known.

I'd stay in the garden with him
Though the night around me is falling
But He bids me go through the voice of woe
His voice to me is calling...