Daddy Won't Be Home Again For Christmas Song Lyrics and Chords
Daddy Won't Be Home Again For Christmas Song Lyrics and Chords by Merle Haggard
Daddy Won't Be Home Again For Christmas
Written and Recorded by Merle Haggard
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Daddy won't be
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home again for
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Christmas
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And I just
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hope that this little check will
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fit
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Daddy won't be
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home again for
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Christmas
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But maybe
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this will serve to let you know
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I don't
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forget
The Christmas tree where
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I'll be won't be
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lighted
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But the
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rain and cold will let me know Decem
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ber's
here
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Forgive me for the
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letters I don't
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answer
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But I keep
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thinking I'll be home again each
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year
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I know Santa Claus won't
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bring you all the
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things you need
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But
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maybe he'll be kinder if he
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knows
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That I won't be home this
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year to play the
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famous roll
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And be
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sides I'm much to thin to wear his
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cloths
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FAQ
Who sang the the song Daddy Won't Be Home Again For Christmas?
- The song Daddy Won't Be Home Again For Christmas was sang by Merle Haggard.
Who is Merle Haggard?
- Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 - April 6, 2016) was an American country singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler.
Haggard was born in Oildale, California, during the Great Depression. His childhood was troubled after the death of his father, and he was incarcerated several times in his youth. After being released from San Quentin State Prison in 1960, he managed to turn his life around and launch a successful country music career. He gained popularity with his songs about the working class that occasionally contained themes contrary to anti-Vietnam War sentiment of some popular music of the time. Between the 1960s and the 1980s, he had 38 number-one hits on the US country charts, several of which also made the Billboard all-genre singles chart. Haggard continued to release successful albums into the 2000s.
He received many honors and awards for his music, including a Kennedy Center Honor (2010), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2006), a BMI Icon Award (2006), and induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (1977), Country Music Hall of Fame (1994) and Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame (1997). He died on April 6, 2016—his 79th birthday—at his ranch in Shasta County, California, having recently suffered from double pneumonia.
