I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am Song Lyrics and Chords
I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am Song Lyrics and Chords by Merle Haggard
I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am
Recorded by Merle Haggard
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Things I learned in hobo jungle
Were things they never
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taught me in a
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where to find a hand out
While bumming through
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Chicago in the
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afternoon
Hey I'm not bragging or complaining
I'm just talking to myself man to
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man
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This ole mental fat I'm
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chewing didn't
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take a lotta
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doing
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take a lot of
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pride in what I
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guess I grew up a loner
I don't remember ever having
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any folks
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around
But I
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keep thumbing through the phone books
And looking for my daddy's
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name in every
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town
And I meet lots of friendly people
That I always wind up leaving on the
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lam
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Hey where I've been or where I'm
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going didn't
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take a lotta
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knowing
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take a lot of
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pride in what I
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never travel in a hurry
Because I got nobody
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waiting for me
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anywhere
Home is
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anywhere I'm living
If it's sleeping on some vacant
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bench in City
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Or if I'm working on some road gang
Or just living off the fat of our great
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land
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I never been nobody's
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idol but at
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least I got a
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title
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take a lot of
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pride in what I
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I never been nobody's
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idol but at
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least I got a
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title
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take a lot of
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pride in what I
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FAQ
Who sang the the song I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am?
- The song I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am 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.
