A Cabin In The Hills Song Lyrics and Chords by Merle Haggard
A Cabin In The Hills
Written and Recorded by Merle Haggard
1st verse spoken:
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I dreamed I saw Jesus last night
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Seated on a mountain in the moonlight
His
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hands held a key to a
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cabin
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cabin I'd dreamed of all my
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life
Money makes the
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rules we have to
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live
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home is just a place they send the
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bills
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God knows why we work and what we
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pray
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So He's building me a
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cabin in the
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hills
Who knows He might be
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finished in the
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morning
So I
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lie awake and take no sleeping
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pills
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God knows I'm not happy in a
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mansion
So He's building me a
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cabin in the
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hills
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live my lonesome life down in a
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valley
With the
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factories the rivers and the
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mills
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Sometimes I can almost hear His
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hammer
Cause He's building me a
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cabin in the
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hills
Someone has to
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keep the home fire
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burning
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sweat and get the harvest in the
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field
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Life on earth won't be the same here
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after
So He's building me a
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cabin in the
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Repeat #4
He's building me a
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cabin in the
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hills
FAQ
Who sang the the song A Cabin In The Hills?
- The song A Cabin In The Hills was sang by Merle Haggard.
Who is Merle Haggard?
- Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 - April 6, 2016) was an American country singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler.
Haggard was born in Oildale, California, during the Great Depression. His childhood was troubled after the death of his father, and he was incarcerated several times in his youth. After being released from San Quentin State Prison in 1960, he managed to turn his life around and launch a successful country music career. He gained popularity with his songs about the working class that occasionally contained themes contrary to anti-Vietnam War sentiment of some popular music of the time. Between the 1960s and the 1980s, he had 38 number-one hits on the US country charts, several of which also made the Billboard all-genre singles chart. Haggard continued to release successful albums into the 2000s.
He received many honors and awards for his music, including a Kennedy Center Honor (2010), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2006), a BMI Icon Award (2006), and induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (1977), Country Music Hall of Fame (1994) and Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame (1997). He died on April 6, 2016—his 79th birthday—at his ranch in Shasta County, California, having recently suffered from double pneumonia.
