In My Next Life Song Lyrics and Chords by Merle Haggard
In My Next Life
Recorded by Merle Haggard
Written by
Max D. Barnes
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The blood red sun beat down and
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baked the red clay ground
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Dust kicked up around his John Deere
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wheels
No trace of rain in sight
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again he'll lose the fight
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have to watch his crops die in the
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fields
They stood there both in tears his
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wife of many years
Said
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John you know I hate to lose our
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farm
He looked into her eyes then
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looked up at the skies
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told her as he held her in his
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arms
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In my
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next life I want to be your
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hero
Some
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thing better than I turned out to
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be
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I've
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lived this life
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behind the plough and
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harrow
In my
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next life I'll make you proud of
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me
The muscles in his arms just
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like his run down farm
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withered up and slowly disa
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ppeared
One hard working man
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two hard working hands
Were
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giving up after all these
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years
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His
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aging eyes grew dim and the
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lady that worshipped him
Sat
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crying on a chair beside his
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bed
Her hands caressed his brow and she
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said it's alright now
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as he slowly slipped away he
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said
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FAQ
Who sang the the song In My Next Life?
- The song In My Next Life 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.
