I Think I'm Gonna Live Forever Song Lyrics and Chords
I Think I'm Gonna Live Forever Song Lyrics and Chords by Merle Haggard
I Think I'm Gonna Live Forever
Recorded by Merle Haggard
Written by
Merle Haggard, Dennis Hromek, Bennie Binion
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When you first left me b
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aby
I thought I would surely lose my
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Every day of life was just
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another day gone
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Well you really had me
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down in a deep de
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I wanted real bad just to
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crawl off and
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die
But now I think I'm gonna live
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forever
Hey dying ain't on my list of things to
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I think I'm gonna live
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forever
Hey it
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feels so good to be
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out of love with
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Hey babe you left me
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hanging
Just trying to aggravate me all the
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And you got it done just the
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way you always
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But all you really did
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was aggravate
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'Cause I got my health and
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I got over
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But now I think I'm gonna live
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forever
Hey dying ain't on my list of things to
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I think I'm gonna live
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forever
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feels so good to be
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out of love with
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FAQ
Who sang the the song I Think I'm Gonna Live Forever?
- The song I Think I'm Gonna Live Forever 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.
