Heaven Was A Drink Of Wine Song Lyrics and Chords by Merle Haggard
Heaven Was A Drink Of Wine
Recorded by Merle Haggard
Written by Sanger D. Shafer
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That psychoed-out psychologist
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asked me about my drinking
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ways
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question that he asked me all related back unto my childhood
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days
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if the truth was known I never took to drinking long
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she was mine but when she left me I went to
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hell
And heaven was a drink of
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wine
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That good doctor said to look at all those
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ink-spots
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see
Could I
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help it if they all looked like big ole broken hearts to
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me
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All my friends and kin will tell you ole Hag ain't the drinking
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kind
But when she left me I went to
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hell and heaven was a drink of
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wine
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Get back get back get on back and leave me
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alone
Can't you
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see that you can't help a man that's this far
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gone
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Hey good doctor
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I've got something you can'
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t find in my mind
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hell and heaven was a drink of
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wine
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heaven was a drink of
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wine
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FAQ
Who sang the the song Heaven Was A Drink Of Wine?
- The song Heaven Was A Drink Of Wine 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.
