Merle Haggard

[fox69]

"Don't Be Cruel"

"Don't Be Cruel"


You know I can be found sittin' home all alone
If you can't come around a least please telephone
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true.

Baby, if I made you mad for something I might have said
Please let's forget the past the future looks bright ahead
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true
I don't want no other love, baby, it's just you I'm thinking of.

Well, don't stop thinking of me don't make me feel this way
Come on over here and love me you know what I want you to say
Don't be cruel to a hear that's true
Oh, why should we be apart I really love you baby cross my heart.

Well, let's walk up to the preacher let us say I do
Then you'll know you'll have me and I'll know I'll have you too
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true
I don't want no other love, baby, it's just you I'm thinking of.

Don't be cruel to a heart that's true don't be cruel to a heart that's true
I don't want no other love, baby, it's just you I'm thinking of...

 

[fox69]

"Don't Get Married"

"Don't Get Married"


Julie they've taken me to prison
I pulled the gun and robbed the jewelry store
The only thing I took was that big diamond
You know the one you said you wish was yours.

The diamond in the window called for money
The price was just too much for me to pay
But the price I'm paying now is so much bigger
Oh Julie, don't I have the right to say.

Don't get married, Julie wait for me
Don't get married 'cause someday I'll be free.

[Instrumental]

Julie, when I serve the time they gave me
I'll walk out through the gates and I'll be free
I hope you didn't only want the diamond
'Cause I pray that you also wanted me.

Don't get married, Julie wait for me
Don't get married 'cause someday I'll be free...

 

[fox69]

"Don't Seem Like We've Been Together All Our Lives"

"Don't Seem Like We've Been Together All Our Lives"


Since we first said I love you it's been twenty years tonight
I moved by and love refused to go
It seems like only yesterday or maybe just last summer
Most of all a year or so ago.

Don't seem like we've been together all our lives
Don't seem like we've been settled down since we got out of school
I'd have thought we'd still love each other when twilight years arive
Don't seem like we've been together all our lives.

The baby came in April of 1964
She'd look like me but still she favour you
I can't believe the years have already come and gone
Seem like everything we own is nearly new.

Don't seem like we've been together all our lives
Don't seem like we've been settled down since we got out of school
I'd have thought we'd still love each other when twilight years arive
Don't seem like we've been together all our lives.

 

[fox69]

"Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurtin' Me)"

"Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurtin' Me)"


You make my eyes run over all the time
You're happy when I'm out, out of my mind
You won't love me but you won't let me be
Don't you ever get tired of hurtin' me

Someone must have hurt you long ago
But why take revenge on me when I love you so
Surely there's another way for you to be
Don't you ever get tired of hurtin' me

You must think I look bad with a smile
For you haven't let me wear one in such a long, long while
Why do I keep hanging on?
Don't you ever get tired of hurtin' me
Still you never get tired of hurtin' me

 

[fox69]

"Down At The End Of The Road"

"Down At The End Of The Road"


I was looking for a place to hang my hat
And a place to lay me down my heavy load
I found it in the woods, in the cabin on the hill
Down at the end of the road

We were looking for a place to raise a child
'Cause she'd soon be giving birth, the one that showed
And we found it in the woods, in the cabin on the hill
Down at the end of the road

Down at the end of the road
Down at the end of an old country road
We found what we needed for the family we would raise
Down at the end of the road

A girl was born, December 23rd
Just one day short of Christmas Eve
And through the years we tried to move many different times
But we landed on the place we couldn't leave

So we prayed to God that we might have a son
And he was born December '92
And we keep lookin' for a place to move away, move away
But leavin' was a thing we couldn't do

20 years flew by like 20 days
And the blessings grew from the initial seed we'd sown
Our kids will soon be leavin' now
They'll leave us here behind
Down at the end of the road

Down at the end of the road
Down at the end of an old country road
We found what we needed for the family we would raise
Down at the end of the road

 

[fox69]

"Down The Old Road Home"

"Down The Old Road Home"


Dear I'm thinking of you while here all alone
I'm wishing and longing for you and for home
And I'd give this old world if I could only say
I'm climbing that hill headed that way.

With a troubled mind and a heart filled with pain
I've searched the old world for fortune and fame
But I'm longing to be with you once again
So we could stroll down old mem'ry lane.

There's a little red house on the top of the hill
Not very far from an old sirup mill
For I'm lonesome and blue for some place to roam
And I wish it could be down the old road to home...

 

[fox69]

"Dream"

"Dream"


Last last I dreamed that you and I were in awful storm
With no place to go or shelter anywhere
And it took a while to realize the reason for the dream
Now the meaning of it all is coming clear.

The storm was on the trouble we've been having
No shelter was the answer we can't find
And the screaming of the raging wind that chilled me to the bone
Must have been heavy on my mind.

And when today you called to tell me it was over
Lord I knelt when the phone began to ring
Yeah it took a while to understand the reason of it all
But now I know the meaning of the dream.

The storm was on the trouble we've been having
No shelter was the answer we can't find
And the screaming of the howling wind that chilled me to the bone
Must have been heavy on my mind...

 

[fox69]

"Driftwood"

"Driftwood"


I'm just driftwood
Drifting with the winds that blow across the sky
I can't always be here with you, babe
I'm just driftwood drifting by

Our lives came together
Somehow we came to mingle for a while
Like two colors of the rainbow
We blended well together for a while

But I won't ever anchor down
The Lord above has numbered all my days
I'm just driftwood
And I think it's time I drifted on aways

I'm just driftwood
Drifting with the winds that blow across the sky
I can't always be here with you, babe
I'm just driftwood drifting by

 

[fox69]

"Drink Up And Be Somebody"

"Drink Up And Be Somebody"


Well I gotta keep my reputation I gotta keep my pride
Can't let you know you've hurt me I can't let you know I've cried
I gotta make you think I'm happy everywhere I go
I gotta keep my hurt inside me I can't let it show
I gotta drink up and be somebody I have another round
I can't let my troubles find me I gotta keep your mem'ry down
Can't let you drive me crazy can't let you win I gotta drink up and be somebody again
[guitar]
Well I can't spend my whole life grieving I gotta find myself
I gotta put me back together I gotta find me someone else
I don't make you think I'm happy everywhere I go
I gotta keep my hurt inside me I can't let it show
I gotta drink up and be somebody...

 

[fox69]

"Easy Come, Easy Go"

"Easy Come, Easy Go"


Easy come, easy go
Here, there, everywhere, crazy love is in the air
Nightfall, Mmm, day and nightfall
So many girls in every port
You gotta be a juggernaut
Full speed ahead or you'll be caught
Oh yeah! Oh yeah!

Easy come, easy go
Up, down, all around, kiss and kiss
And pound for pound, delicious
Mmm so nutritious
Sailor beware take it slow
Easy come, easy go.

All right!

When you want love to keep you warm
There's nothing like a uniform
You got a port in any storm
There she blows.

Easy come, easy go
Up, down, all around, kiss and kiss
And pound for pound, delicious
Mmm so nutritious
Sailor beware take it slow
Easy come, easy go.

Sailor beware take it slow
Easy come, easy go.
Easy come, easy go.
Easy come, easy go.
Easy come, easy go.
Easy come, easy go.
Easy come, easy go...