When My Last Song Is Sung Song Lyrics and Chords by Merle Haggard
When My Last Song Is Sung
Written and Recorded by Merle Haggard
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When my last
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song is
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sung and my life's
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work is
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done
And my
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old faithful
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guitar loses
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tone
You won't
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find me
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troubled
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then wishing I could
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sing
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again
When my
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last song is
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sung
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I'll be
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gone
What a gift the
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Lord has
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shared with a man who
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never
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cared
Claiming
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every note I'd
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written for my
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own
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fore it
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comes my
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time there's a song of
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thanks in
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line
Be
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fore my Lord and
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Savior
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calls me
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home
Let me sing a song for
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Jesus
every
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For He's the one who
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guides me every
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step of the
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way
He's my
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soul
inspi
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ration and the
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one who guides my
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pen
So let that
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last
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song I
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sing
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be for
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Him
FAQ
Who sang the the song When My Last Song Is Sung?
- The song When My Last Song Is Sung 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.
