I'll Always Be Glad To Take You Back Song Lyrics and Chords
I'll Always Be Glad To Take You Back Song Lyrics and Chords by Merle Haggard
I'll Always Be Glad To Take You Back
Recorded by Merle Haggard
Written by Ernest Tubb
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After you have finished all your running
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round
And you
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find the cards against you
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stacked
After you are weary and so
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sick
inside
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always be glad to take you
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back
After life has taught you dear to really
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care
After
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all the rest is through with
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you
Just give me a ring and you will
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find me here
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Waiting as I've always done for
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you
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Though they tell me that you have
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strayed
dear
That you're traveling on that other
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side
But
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after all they just don't really
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know
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I'll
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always be glad to take you
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back
After it's all over and yourself you
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find
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though there's silver in your
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hair
You can bet the world that I won't
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let you down
If
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you will only say that you still
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care
I just can't believe that you stopped loving
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me
I
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feel it deep within this heart of
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mine
I'm praying for the day that you'll come
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back to me
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It's up to you I'm willing any
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time
Repeat #3
FAQ
Who sang the the song I'll Always Be Glad To Take You Back?
- The song I'll Always Be Glad To Take You Back 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.
