Don't Get Married Song Lyrics and Chords by Merle Haggard
Don't Get Married
Recorded by Merle Haggard
Written by Tommy Collins
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Julie they've taken me to
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prison
I pulled the gun and robbed the jewelry
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store
The only thing I took was that big
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You know the one you said you wish was
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yours
The diamond in the window called for
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money
The price was just too much for me to
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pay
But the price I'm paying now is so much
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bigger
Oh Julie don't I have the right to
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say
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Don't get
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married Julie wait for
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me
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married cause
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someday I'll be
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free
Julie when I serve the time they gave
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me
I'll walk out through the gates and I'll be
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free
I hope you didn't only want the
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diamond
Cause I pray that you also wanted
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me
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me
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someday I'll be
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free
FAQ
Who sang the the song Don't Get Married?
- The song Don't Get Married 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.
