What Will It Be Like Song Lyrics and Chords by Merle Haggard
What Will It Be Like
Written and Recorded by Merle Haggard
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He spoke of a morning
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and an unclouded
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day
With no sorrow and
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hardship to
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bare
He said that where I am
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you also shall
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stay
What will it be
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like to be
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there
He spoke of a life where we'
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d never gro
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In a city he'
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s gone to p
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repare
He said that the streets would be
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paved with pure
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gold
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like to be
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there
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will it be like to be
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there (oh tell me)
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will it be like to be
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there
For
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ever and ever in
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heaven so
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fair
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like to be
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there
He spoke of a trumpet when the
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dead would all
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rise
And we wonder how
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long it will
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be
It's written the scales will al
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l fall from ou
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And the face of the
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we'l
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He spoke of forever where
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love never
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dies
And the souls of our
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loved ones we'l
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Where the demons can't harm us an
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d are met wit
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How beautiful
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Heaven must
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be
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FAQ
Who sang the the song What Will It Be Like?
- The song What Will It Be Like 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.
