Back To The Barrooms Again Song Lyrics and Chords by Merle Haggard
Back To The Barrooms Again
Recorded by Merle Haggard
Written by
Merle Haggard and Dave Kirby
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Now it's back to the bar
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rooms
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right back to drinking
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again
Maybe
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someday you'll love me
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enough to stay with me
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whisky won't be my best
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friend
But now it's back to the barrooms
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again
The bartender knows me he
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knows how you do me
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he knows why I'm back here
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again
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He should be given a
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prize for his patience
Cause
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bartenders do under
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stand
So it's back to the barrooms
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again
With the loud music roaring the
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bartender
pouring
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my shaky legs trying to
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stand
It's
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over and over I've
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tried to stay sober
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look what a failure I've
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been
Now it's back to the barrooms
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again
Repeat #2
Oh yes
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it's back to the barrooms
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again
FAQ
Who sang the the song Back To The Barrooms Again?
- The song Back To The Barrooms Again 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.
