Wishing All These Old Things Were New Song Lyrics and Chords
Wishing All These Old Things Were New Song Lyrics and Chords by Merle Haggard
Wishing All These Old Things Were New
Written and Recorded by Merle Haggard
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Watching while some
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old friends do a
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Holding back the want to in my
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own addicted
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mind
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still a thing
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even I could
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do
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old things were
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Watching while some
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young men go to
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jail
And they show it all on TV just to
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see somebody
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fail
And I guess there's not a
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single thing a
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man like me can
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do
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old things were
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new
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times like the roaring '
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20s and the
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too
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Thinking about the good old days be
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fore it all
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fell
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through
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old things were
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The kids don't want my
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cigarettes
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They say it's time that dad shoul
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d lay tobacc
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But if I could start all
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over
Guess I'd
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still do what I
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do
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FAQ
Who sang the the song Wishing All These Old Things Were New?
- The song Wishing All These Old Things Were New 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.
