I Came So Close To Living Alone Song Lyrics and Chords
I Came So Close To Living Alone Song Lyrics and Chords by Merle Haggard
I Came So Close To Living Alone
Recorded by Merle Haggard
Written by
Jimmie Davis and Ken Hunt
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I came close so
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close to
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failure
I came close to
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living
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lone
I know the
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kids still love me and their
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mommy
But I came so close to
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losing my
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home
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felt small enough to drown in each
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big enough to admit I was
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wrong
When
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I think of what I done a
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chill goes through me
But I came so close to
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losing my
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home
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felt small enough to drown in each
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big enough to admit I was
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wrong
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chill goes through me
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losing my
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home
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losing my
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home
FAQ
Who sang the the song I Came So Close To Living Alone?
- The song I Came So Close To Living Alone 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.
