If I'm Not Too Late Song Lyrics and Chords by Hank Thompson
If I'm Not Too Late
Written and Recorded by Hank Thompson
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Well I walked right out and didn'
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t say goodbye
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left you here to root hog or
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die
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m crawling back t
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o
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Take me back if I'
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m not to
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I couldn't blame you if yo
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u turned me down
You
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treat me like a common
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hound
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love you babe let me
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negotiate
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Take me back if I'
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m not to
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did a lot of drinking and
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then a lot of thinking
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way I treated you was a crime
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though my head was swimming
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all the other
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women
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couldn't get you off m
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mind
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I failed so bad I hang my
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head in shame
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Go ahead and call me a
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dirty
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more chance and I'l
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l play it straight
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Take me back if I'
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m not to
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Ooo-ooo-
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ooo-
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ooo-ooo-
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ooo-ooo-
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ooo-ooo-
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ooo
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Oo-we-oo-we baby it's
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not too late
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Ooo-oo-we baby
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you're my date
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Ooo-ooo-we baby
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won't
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wait
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Ooo-ooo-we baby
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you're
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y
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I've a crazy notion
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jump right in the ocean
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you decide to turn me down
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know that you are bitter
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won't you rec
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onsider
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let me hang
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around
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I know I don't deserve you
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r
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e been about as wrong a
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s wrong as can be
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don't tell me to g
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o catch a freight
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Take me back if I'
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m not to
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o
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FAQ
Who sang the the song If I'm Not Too Late?
- The song If I'm Not Too Late was sang by Hank Thompson.
Who is Hank Thompson?
- Henry William Thompson (September 3, 1925 - November 6, 2007) was an American country music singer-songwriter and musician whose career spanned seven decades.
Thompson's musical style, characterized as honky-tonk Western swing, was a mixture of fiddles, electric guitar, and steel guitar that featured his distinctive, smooth baritone vocals.
His backing band, The Brazos Valley Boys, was voted the top Country Western Band for 14 years in a row by Billboard. Thompson pursued a "light" version of the Western swing sound that Bob Wills and others played the primary difference between his music and that of Bob Wills was that Thompson, who used the swing beat and instrumentation to enhance his vocals, discouraged the intense instrumental soloing from his musicians that Wills encouraged however, the "Hank Thompson sound" exceeded Bob Wills in top-40 country hits.
Although not as prominent on the top country charts in later decades, Thompson remained a recording artist and concert draw well into his 80s.
The 2013 game Grand Theft Auto V featured his song "It Don't Hurt Anymore" in the fictional radio show, Rebel Radio.
The 1987 novel Crazy Heart by Thomas Cobb was inspired by Thompson's life, specifically by his practice of picking up a local band to back him when he toured. In 2009, Cobb's novel was turned into a successful film directed by Scott Cooper and starring Jeff Bridges in an Academy Award-winning performance.