Three Times Seven Song Lyrics and Chords by Hank Thompson
Three Times Seven
Recorded by Hank Thompson
Written by Merle Travis and Cliffie Stone
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I'm three times seven baby I
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do as I doggone please
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ain't nobody this
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side of heaven
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gonna get me on my
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knees
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three times seven I'm
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gonna have my fun
Well I
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just won't tame I'm
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gonna be the same
Till I'm
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three times twenty-
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one
I'm the big duck in a puddle don't
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you try to push me around
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Cause I don't come in
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like no lion just to
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go out like a
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lamb
I'm
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three times seven baby
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that makes twenty-one
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love on sight and I
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fly by night I'm a
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no good son of a
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gun
I'm rough and ready baby and I
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really feel my oaths
Now
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I ain't scared of
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no livin' man
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or any gun he
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totes
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triflin' troublemaker and
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I'm really full of fun
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Wild and wooly
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full of please I'm a
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no good son of a
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gun
Way I make my livin' loafin' I
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never did work a day
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Workin' to me just
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don't agree cause
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I ain't built that
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way
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rootin' tootin' rounder gals and
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don't you think that I ain't
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might get around to
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paint the town but
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I never did like to
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paint
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FAQ
Who sang the the song Three Times Seven?
- The song Three Times Seven 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.