You Don't Have The Nerve Song Lyrics and Chords by Hank Thompson
You Don't Have The Nerve
Recorded by Hank Thompson
Written by Billy Gray and Hank Thompson
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Within your heart you shelter the
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shame that you deserve
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You can't look me in the eye cause you don't have
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Your new love's out of kilter yo
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u saw your dream world swerve
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You should take the blame alone but you don't have th
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nerve
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Don't blame fat
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e because you hate the one that prove
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untrue
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Just pay the price and
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sacrifice the
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way I did for
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you
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Your shebang has boomeranged cause
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he threw you a curve
For the
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life you spent you should repent but you don't have th
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You know you heart's unstable fo
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r you there's no reserve
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You'd like to say I'm sorry but you don't hav
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e the nerve
The cards are on the table the
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truth we can observe
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You'd like to ask me to forgive but you don't have
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Because you knew I
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worshiped you you left me all
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alone
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And now you pine
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because you find
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when you come back I'
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gone
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Today you felt you whole world melt your
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dreams just won't conserve
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love you've lost so pay the cost when you don't have
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FAQ
Who sang the the song You Don't Have The Nerve?
- The song You Don't Have The Nerve was sang by Hank Thompson.
Who is Hank Thompson?
- Henry William Thompson (September 3, 1925 - November 6, 2007) was an American country music singer-songwriter and musician whose career spanned seven decades.
Thompson's musical style, characterized as honky-tonk Western swing, was a mixture of fiddles, electric guitar, and steel guitar that featured his distinctive, smooth baritone vocals.
His backing band, The Brazos Valley Boys, was voted the top Country Western Band for 14 years in a row by Billboard. Thompson pursued a "light" version of the Western swing sound that Bob Wills and others played the primary difference between his music and that of Bob Wills was that Thompson, who used the swing beat and instrumentation to enhance his vocals, discouraged the intense instrumental soloing from his musicians that Wills encouraged however, the "Hank Thompson sound" exceeded Bob Wills in top-40 country hits.
Although not as prominent on the top country charts in later decades, Thompson remained a recording artist and concert draw well into his 80s.
The 2013 game Grand Theft Auto V featured his song "It Don't Hurt Anymore" in the fictional radio show, Rebel Radio.
The 1987 novel Crazy Heart by Thomas Cobb was inspired by Thompson's life, specifically by his practice of picking up a local band to back him when he toured. In 2009, Cobb's novel was turned into a successful film directed by Scott Cooper and starring Jeff Bridges in an Academy Award-winning performance.
