Preservation Of The Wild Life Song Lyrics and Chords
Preservation Of The Wild Life Song Lyrics and Chords by Earl Thomas Conley
Preservation Of The Wild Life
Recorded by Earl Thomas Conley
Written by Jim Allison and Linda Young
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Seems everybody's got a
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cause
On saving trees to changing
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love
Now I got myself one
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Concerning me and maybe
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you
But you just hold all your
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applause
Ain't no list for you to
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sign
Don't need your money don't need your
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time
So before you're out that
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door
Let me tell you what I'm
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for
What's been taking up my
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time
The preservation of the
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wild
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life
Will put them women and Jim Beam in bright
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lights
Takes dedication to stay
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nights
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Just raising hell and having
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fun
I've been slowed down by a
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good
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wife
Said she'd teach me how to live
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right
But I just keep preserving
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wild
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Cause that's all I've ever
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done
No TV program left to
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fan
No need to write you congress
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man
No love and cause can be
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done
I got the best one of them
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all
It's the lands on which I
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stand
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I've been slowed down by a
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good
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wife
Said she'd teach me how to live
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right
But I just keep preserving
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wild
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Cause that' all we've ever
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done
FAQ
Who sang the the song Preservation Of The Wild Life?
- The song Preservation Of The Wild Life was sang by Earl Thomas Conley.
Who is Earl Thomas Conley?
- Earl Thomas Conley (October 17, 1941 - April 10, 2019) was an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1980 and 2003, he recorded ten studio albums, including seven for RCA Records. In the 1980s and into the 1990s, Conley also charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, of which eighteen reached Number One. His eighteen Billboard Number One country singles during the 1980s marked the most Number One hits by any artist in any genre during that decade, excluding Alabama and Ronnie Milsap.