1.

(# 16 country hit)

A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today

Merle Haggard

© Shade Tree Music, BMI

For years I've been bustin' my rear
To make a livin' but it ain't made
For years I've been tryin' to pay off my bills
But they ain't paid

I owe every dime I make to every soul I know
The higher up I reach the further down I go
And this old broken back of mine is all I've got to show
And anyway a workin' man can't get nowhere today

Lord a workin' man can't get nowhere today
A workin' man ain't got no time to play
Today I worked my fanny off and leave it lay
A workin' man can't get nowhere today
[ instrumental ]
I paid my income tax and the government gives back
What I got comin' Lord but it ain't much
I pay my child support cause I'm a law abidin' sort
And easy touch

Yet I starve myself to death tryin' to keep my family fed
I keep my budget tight tryin' to get myself ahead
But I'll still be deep in debt the day that I fall dead
That's why I say Lord a workin' man can't get nowhere today

Well a workin' man can't get nowhere today
A workin' man ain't got no time to play
Tonight I'll work my fanny off and leave it lay
A workin' man can't get nowhere today
A workin' man can't get nowhere today

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2.

(# 12 country hit)

Making Believe

Jimmy Work

© Acuff-Rose Music, BMI

Making believe that you still love me
It's leaving me alone and so blue
But I'll always dream still I'll never own you
Making believe it's all I can do

I can't hold you close darling when you're not with me
You're somebody's love you will never be mine
Making believe I'll spend my lifetime
Loving you and making believe
[ instrumental ]
Making believe that I never lost you
But those happy hours I find are so few
My plans for the future will never come true
Making believe that's all I can do

I can't hold you close darling when you're not with me...

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3.

Blues Stay Away From Me

Alton Delmore - Wayne Raney - Henry Glover

© Vidor Pub, BMI

Blues stay away from me
Blues why don't you let me be
Don't know why you keep on haunting me

Love was never meant for me
True love was never meant for me
Seems somehow we never can agree

Life is full of misery
Dreams are like a memory
Bringing back your love that used to be

Tears so many I can't see
Years don't mean a thing to me
Time goes by and still I can't be free

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4.

Got A Letter From My Kid Today

Hy Zaret - Joan Whitney - Alex Kramer

© Bourne Co, ASCAP

Got a letter from my kid today
Say let me read a line or two
I lost my teddy bear I can't remember where
Daddy is he there with you

In the letter he goes on to say
I'm so excited daddy dear
I found a little pup I washed and brushed him up
Tell me can I keep him here

Daddy here's my puppy's picture
Don't you think he looks like me
We could be so happy only
Without you it's lonely

That's the letter from my kid today
And gee it makes me kinda blue
I know exactly how the kid is feeling now
Cause I get mighty lonely too
[ instrumental ]
Daddy here's my puppy's picture...
That's the letter from my kid today...

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5.

When My Last Song Is Sung

Merle Haggard

© Shade Tree Music, BMI

When my last song is sung
And my life's work is done
And my old faithful guitar loses tone
You won't find me troubled then
Wishin' I could sing again
When my last song is sung I'll be gone

What a gift the Lord has shared
With a man who never cared
Claiming every note I'd written for my own
And before it comes my time
There's a song of thanks in line
Before my Lord and Saviour calls me home

Let me sing a song for Jesus everyday
For he's the one who guides me every step of the way
He's my soul inspiration and the one who guides my pen
So let that last song I sing be for him

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6.

Moanin' The Blues

Hank Williams

© Fred Rose Music, BMI

When my baby moved out and the blues moved in
There wadn't nothin' I could do
But mosey around with my head in my hands
Yellin' what am I comin' to
And I just keep moanin' moanin' the blues

Well I wrote a nice long letter sayin' mama please come home
Your daddy is lonesome and all I do is moan

I've been lovin' that gal for so doggone long
I can't afford to lose her now
I thought I was right but I must have been wrong
Because my head is startin' to bow
And I just keep moanin' moanin' the blues

Glenn D
[ instrumental ]
Well baby baby baby honey baby please come home
Your daddy is lonesome and all I do is moan

I've been lovin' that gal for so doggone long...

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7.

Goodbye Lefty

Merle Haggard

© Shade Tree Music, BMI

I'd love to hear a jukebox play
I love you a thousand ways
Or if you've got the money I've got the time
I'd walk a mile for mom and dad
And the good times that we had
Look what thoughts will do when you think old pal of mine

But the old old man is gone
There'll be no more Lefty's songs
How much he meant to me nobody knows
The long black veil that Alice wore
Like words he sang some years before
She loved him too that's the way love goes
[ instrumental ]
But the old old man is gone...

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8.

Blues For Dixie

Bob Wills - O.W. Mayo

© Belinda Music, BMI

If you've ever seen that ole Mississippi
Queen of the delta land
Then you'll understand
Why I've got the blues for Dixie

If you've ever been to Tennessee when
That old cotton field is white
In pale moonlight
Then you've had the blues for Dixie

If you've seen the glamor of that Alabama
Moon shinin' in the sky
If you've got a baby in Birmingham maybe
Then you'll know the reason why

Why I'm gonna be blue till I'm on that old choo-choo
Headin' down South again
There goes that train
That's leavin' me blue for Dixie
[ instrumental ]
Country music three ways
[ instrumental ]
Now here comes

If you've seen the glamor of that Alabama...

Why I'm gonna be blue 'til I'm on that old choo-choo
Headin' down South again
There goes that old train that's leavin' me blue
There goes that train that's leavin' me blue for Dixie
Oh Lord

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9.

(# 12 country hit)

The Running Kind

Merle Haggard

© Shade Tree Music, BMI

I was born the running kind
With leaving always on my mind
Home was never home to me at anytime
Every front door found me hopin'
I would find the back door open
There just had to be an exit for the running kind

Within me there's a prison surrounding me alone
As real as any dungeon with it's walls of stone
I know running's not the answer
Yeah but running's been my nature
And a part of me that keeps me moving on

I was born the running kind...
[ instrumental ]
I was born the running kind...

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10.

I'm A White Boy

Merle Haggard

© Shade Tree Music, BMI

Some folks call me a ramblin' man
I do a lotta thumbin' and a kickin' cans
And it wouldn't do an ounce of good to call my name
Cause daddy's name wadn't Willy Woodrow
And I wadn't born and raised in no ghetto
Just a white boy lookin' for a place to do my thing

Well I'm out to find me a wealthy woman
And a line of work that don't take no diploma
I ain't got much to lose but a lot to gain
Well some might call me a goodtime fella
I ain't black and I ain't yella
Just a white boy lookin' for a place to do my thing

Yeah I don't want no handout livin'
Don't want any part of anything they're givin'
I'm proud and white and I've got a song to sing
Well I've said a few things and I'll admit it
If you wanna get ahead you gotta hump and get it
I'm a white boy lookin' for a place to do my thing

Hump and git it now
[ instrumental ]
Yeah I'm a small town boy been around a little
I like guitars and I like a fiddle
And that's the kinda soul it takes to fan my flame
Well I'm a blue eyed Billy kinda frail and ruddy
So I'll have to work to be somebody
I'm a white boy lookin' for a place to do my thing

I don't want no handout livin'...
I'm a white boy lookin' for a place to do my thing

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