Love Keeps Hanging On Song Lyrics and Chords by Merle Haggard
Love Keeps Hanging On
Written and Recorded by Merle Haggard
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Lately
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I've been
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losin' the
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darkness in my
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head
The years
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are catchin'
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up with you and
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me but we don't
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care
We're growin' old together but
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we won't be
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alone
In lots of ways we've fallen off but
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love keeps hangin'
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on
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I've been
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watchin' the
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strands of time
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unwind
The years
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are catchin'
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up with you and
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me but we don't
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mind
We're growin' old together but
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we won't we won't be
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alone
In lots of ways we've fallen off but
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love keeps hangin'
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on
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We still love to dance a slow
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three quarter time
But
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my old age won't climb the hills they
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used to climb
I could be mistaken but
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our tender years are
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gone
In lots of ways we've fallen off but
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love keeps hangin'
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on
I could be mistaken but
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our tender years are
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gone
In lots of ways we've fallen off but
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love keeps hangin'
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on
FAQ
Who sang the the song Love Keeps Hanging On?
- The song Love Keeps Hanging On 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.
