No Hard Times Song Lyrics and Chords by Merle Haggard
No Hard Times
Recorded by Merle Haggard
Written by Jimmie Rodgers
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I got a barrel of flour Lord I got a bucket of lard
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I got a
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barrel of flour Lord I got a bucket of
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lard
Ain't
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got no blues got chickens in my back
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yard
I got corn in my crib cotton growin' in my patch
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I got
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corn in my crib cotton growin' in my
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patch
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got that old hen a sittin' waitin' for that old hen to
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hatch
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hard time
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I'm gonna hitch up my mule and take a holt of my lines
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I'm gonna
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hitch up my mule and take a holt of my
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can't be bothered with all the old hard
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times
I'm gonna build me a shanty Lord I'm gonna settle down
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I'm gonna
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build me a shanty Lord I'm gonna settle
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down
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me a corn fed momma and Lordy quit a runnin a'
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I can make more money with my pick and plow
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I can
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make more money with my pick and
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plow
With
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my one-eyed mule and my good ole Jersey
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cow
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hard time
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blues
FAQ
Who sang the the song No Hard Times?
- The song No Hard Times 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.
