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(# 76 country hit)

I Haven't Learned A Thing

Sonny Throckmorton

© Tree Pub, BMI

with Merle Haggard

Daddy preached the word in Texas when I was just a very tiny boy
When a songbook and a Bible to me was just another church-pew toy
And I learned to pick the guitar with those gospel songs that we always sang
Yes heard ten thousand songs but Lord I guess I didn't learn a thing

I was pickin' in a nightclub just before I saw my 19th year
I was pickin' and a singin' learnin' that I loved to drink that beer...
Oh my mom tried to tell me all the sorrow that drinkin' that stuff would bring
And it must have been it a thousand times Lord I guess I never learned a thing

I haven't learned a thing oh I haven't learned a thing
I'm still lookin' for the answer Lord I guess I haven't learned a thing

By the time that I reached thirty my hands would shake too much to make the chords
And if I took the remedy the songs I sang they were just a bunch of words
Now I'm singin' in a mission the ol' time songs my papa used to sing
I'm still lookin' for the answer and Lord I guess I didn't learn a thing

I haven't learned a thing oh I haven't learned a thing
But I'm still lookin' for the answer Lord I guess I haven't learned a thing
Yes I'm still lookin' for the answer God I guess I haven't learned a thing

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