I Did The Right Thing Song Lyrics and Chords by Johnny Paycheck
I Did The Right Thing
Recorded by Johnny Paycheck
Written by Bobby Braddock
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I pull into my driveway while the
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day is slowly dying in the
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west
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look in that direction to the
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setting sun and the one that loved me
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best
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million years ago or was it
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yesterday
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swore she'd always love me
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God I wonder if she still feels that
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way
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did the right
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went back to my wife
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straightened out my life
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I did the right
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I walk in to the house and hear
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small voices singing
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daddy's
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lady of the house puts down the
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beer she's drinking she says
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hello
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While we make small talk my
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mind takes a long walk back to
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someone
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close my eyes and
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repeat those little lies I often tell
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myself
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did the right
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went back to my wife
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straightened out my life
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face is wet with teardrops
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fumble for my wrist watch it's half past
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three
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more I was dreaming of the
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woman who once said she'd die for
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me
But I did what was right and it
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hurts me every night now that
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she's
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all my friends are proud
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cause I gave her up to save my
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home
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did the right
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went back to my wife
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straightened out my life
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FAQ
Who sang the the song I Did The Right Thing?
- The song I Did The Right Thing was sang by Johnny Paycheck.
Who is Johnny Paycheck?
- Johnny Paycheck (born Donald Eugene Lytle May 31, 1938 - February 19, 2003) was an American country music singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and Grand Ole Opry member notable for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It". He achieved his greatest success in the 1970s as a force in country music's "outlaw movement" popularized by artists Hank Williams Jr., Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, and Merle Haggard. In the 1980s, his music career slowed due to drug, alcohol and legal problems. He served a prison sentence in the early 1990s and his declining health effectively ended his career in early 2000. In 1980, Paycheck appeared on the PBS music program Austin City Limits (season 5).
