Goodbye Comes Hard For Me Song Lyrics and Chords by Merle Haggard
Goodbye Comes Hard For Me
Recorded by Merle Haggard
Written by Tommy Collins
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I just remembered something that
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I forgot to
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do
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bedroom door needs painting and the
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walls
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are fading
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too
Angie's bike needs fixing that
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all takes time you
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see
And I know I'm not
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fooling you
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goodbye comes hard for
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me
So I'll just check for things once more and
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look in every
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room
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must have dropped my comb somewhere and a
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man must
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stay well
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groomed
It seems I have the right to stay but I
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know you don't
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agree
When it's goodbye to
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all our love
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goodbye comes hard for
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me
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Goodbye comes hard for me and I
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hoped you'd
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grab my
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sleeve
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thought that you might change your mind and
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ask me not to leave
My
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face is wet I've cried I guess I
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loved you now you're
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free
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all our love
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goodbye comes hard for
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My face is wet I've cried I guess I
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loved you now you're
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free
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all our love
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FAQ
Who sang the the song Goodbye Comes Hard For Me?
- The song Goodbye Comes Hard For Me 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.
