I'm A Lonesome Fugitive Song Lyrics and Chords by Merle Haggard
I'm A Lonesome Fugitive
Recorded by Merle Haggard
Written by
Liz and Casey Anderson
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Down every road there's
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always one more
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city
I'm
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on the run the
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highway is my
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home
I raised a lot of
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cane back in my
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younger
days
While
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Mama used to
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pray my crops would
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fail
Now I'm a hunted
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fugitive with just two
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ways
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run the law or
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spend my life in
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jail
I'd like to settle
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down but they won't
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let
me
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fugitive must be a rolling
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stone
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every road there's
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always one more
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city
I'm
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on the run the
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highway is my
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home
I'm lonely but I
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can't afford the
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luxury
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having one I
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love to come
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along
She'd only slow me
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down and they'd
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catch up with me
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he who travels
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fastest goes
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alone
tag:
I'm
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on the run the
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highway is my
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home
FAQ
Who sang the the song I'm A Lonesome Fugitive?
- The song I'm A Lonesome Fugitive 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.
