Dad's Old Fiddle Song Lyrics and Chords by Merle Haggard
Dad's Old Fiddle
Recorded by Merle Haggard
Written by Glenn Martin
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There's two nails in the wall above the
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door in the
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hall
Where Dad's old fiddle hung for twenty
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years
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recall as just a boy how my
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heart would beat with
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joy
When Daddy would play the
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song I loved to
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hear
And Daddy would
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play
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Daddy never left us any will telling
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us what he'd
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give
But everybody knew his fiddle was
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mine
But
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the fiddle was all he left so
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I had to teach
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myself
And I bet I played his
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song a million
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times
And I would
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play
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Well if dad could see me now oh I know
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that he'd be
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proud
To hear his old fiddle played once
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again
But
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maybe it won't be long till I
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join him in his
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song
And together we'll play this
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song once
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again
And then we'll
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play
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FAQ
Who sang the the song Dad's Old Fiddle?
- The song Dad's Old Fiddle 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.
