The Creek Will Still Be Running Song Lyrics and Chords
The Creek Will Still Be Running Song Lyrics and Chords by Johnny Paycheck
The Creek Will Still Be Running
Recorded by Johnny Paycheck
Written by
Aubrey L. Mayhew
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Well the creek will still be running seven days a week
Your leaving me won't change a doggone
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thing
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roof on the kitchen will still have the same ol'
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leak
And
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after you're gone the creek will
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still be running
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seven days a
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week
After
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all these years all of a sudden
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you think you're gonna be boss
But you should
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know me well enough by now to know
I
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ain't never gonna ride tha
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hoss
There'l
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l never be a day if I got something to say
I won'
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t stand right up an
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speak
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After you're gone the creek will
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still be running
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seven days a
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week
In the fall of the year the leaves on the trees out back
Will still turn brown
And in the heat of the summer the well will still go
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dry
The
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boards on the floor just inside the door
Will
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still have the same old squeak
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After you're gone the creek will
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still be running
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seven days a
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Repeat #2
Yeah after you're gone the creek will
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still be running
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seven days a
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FAQ
Who sang the the song The Creek Will Still Be Running?
- The song The Creek Will Still Be Running 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).