Merle Haggard piosenki

I'll tell you a story of Jimmie the Kid he's a brakeman you all know He was born in Mississippi away down south and he flagged on the T N & O He yodeled to fame on the Boston Main the Wabash and the Teepee From the old Grand Trunk to the cotton belt and he...

The way I been treated sometime I wish I were dead The way I been treated sometime I wish I were dead Cause I ain't got no place to lay my weary head. When I want you woman I always find you gone Everytime I want you I always find you gone Lord you've gone al...

Dashing through the snow In a one-horse open sleigh Through the fields we go Laughing all the way Bells on bob-tail ring Making spirits bright What fun it is to ride and sing A sleighing song tonight Jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way Oh, what fun...

I am weak but Thou art strong Jesus keep me from all wrong I'll be satisfied as long As I walk, let me walk close to Thee Just a closer walk with Thee Grant it Jesus is my plea Daily walking close to Thee Let it be, dear Lord, let it be When my feeble life i...

Hold me and love me And tell me that you decided to stay At least put it off till tomorrow And keep me from cryin' today. Help me make ready with the heartache Rhat's soon will be coming my way Consider how little I'm asking of you And keep me from cryin' tod...

There's a dark and a trouble side of life There's a bright and a sunny side too Though we meet with the darkness and strife The sunny side we also have in view. So keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side Keep on the sunny side of life It will help yo...

I wanted more from life, than four kids and a wife And a job in a dark Kentucky mine A twenty acre farm, with a shackey house and barn Thats all I had and all I left behind. But at gambling, I was lucky, and so I left Kentucky And left behind my woman and my...

I'll never swim Kern River again It was there that I met her It was there that I lost my best friend And now I live in the mountains I drifted up here with the wind And I may drown in still water But I'll never swim Kern River again I grew up in an oil town B...

Kids get lonesome too So this song's just for you When you get lonely All ages go insane Even young love causes pain When you get lonely Bad days come in pairs It's good to know somebody cares When you get lonely Kids have bad days too I wish I could be with...

Why do you treat me as if I were only a friend And what have I done that has made you so distant and cold Sometimes I wonder if you'll be contented again Will you be happy when you are withered and old I cannot offer you diamonds or a mansion so fine I cannot...

If you find yourself in lock up, Write a song about a jail. And if you set your boat on fire, In the middle of a gale. If you lose your only lover, Go find someone (something?) sweet and soft, And laugh it off. Ha ha ha ha. Laugh it off. If a joke about the p...

Once I made a promise that I'd never do no wrong But I feel the yearn to love you even though I know it's wrong You'll have to take my hand and lead me slowly through the door I'll be wrong in what I'm doin' but I can't refuse anymore Lead me on and take cont...

Do the mornin's still come early, are the nights not long enough? Does a tear of hesitation fall on everything you touch? Well, it all might be a lesson for the hasty heart to know Maybe leavin's not the only way to go Maybe lyin' at your feelin's, grow accus...

Bonnie was a waitress in a small cafe Clyde Barrow was the rounder that took her away They both robbed and killed until both of them died So goes the legend of Bonnie and Clyde The poems that she wrote of the life that they led Told of the lawmen left dying o...

[Chorus] When Leonard finally came to California He was twenty-one years old, as I recall He loved to write a song and pick on the guitar And he came to hang a gold one on the wall The town in which he lived is not important But you'll know which town I mean...

Let's chase each other 'round the room tonight Let's play the games we played on our wedding night To lock and bolt the door is only right Let's chase each other 'round the room tonight Seems like lately people love to play with fire The other games they play...

The jury found the verdict first degree They swore I planned her death to be I prayed they sentence me to die But they wanted me to live and I know why So I do life in prison for the wrongs I've done And I pray every night for death to come My life will be a b...

Well it really has been nice bein' with you but I'm afraid that I've got to leave As you know I'm a rodeo cowboy and there's a rodeo down in Mesquite That's the life of a rodeo cowboy breakin' broncs or gettin' broke That's the life of a rodeo cowboy and that'...

Somehow things just never came together Fate had different plans for you and me Love used to be the most important thing in life But life's just not the way it used to be If lovin' someone all the way Is gone for good with yesterday Then what am I? I'm just a...

Life is like a mountain railroad With an engineer that's brave We must make the run successful From the cradle to the grave Watch the curves, the fills, and tunnels Never falter, never fail Keep your hand upon the throttle And your eyes upon the rail...