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Merle Haggard

It's All In The Game

(# 1 top country album)

Epic FE-39364
Jun / 1984

Produced by Merle Haggard, Ray Baker

Cover image of It's All In The Game

Roy Nichols, Grady Martin, Chet Atkins, Freddy Powers - guitar
Norman Hamlet - steel
Tiny Moore - mandolin
Mike Leech - bass
Kenny Malone - drums
Jim Belkin - fiddle
Bobby Wood - piano/keyboards
Don Markham - sax
Janie Fricke - vocals
Recorded:
Oct/1983, Eleven-Eleven Studio, Nashville

1.

(# 1 country hit)

Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room

Merle Haggard - Freddy Powers

© Tree Pub, BMI

Let's chase each other around the room tonight
Let's play the games we played on our wedding night
To lock and bolt the door is only right
Let's chase each other around the room tonight

Seems like lately people love to play with fire
The other games they play are just as bad
I'd rather stay at home and feel your burning lips
And play the kind of games that make me glad

Oh let's chase each other around the room tonight...
[ steel - fiddle ]
Let's don't chase around and make each other weary
Let's keep all our love at home and out of sight
Let's leave everything like jealousy behind us
And let's chase each other around the room tonight

Oh let's chase each other around the room tonight...

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2.

(# 1 country hit)

A Place To Fall Apart

Merle Haggard - Freddy Powers - Willie Nelson

© Tree Pub, BMI

I'll probably never see you eye to eye again
This letter's meant to be my last farewell
But you need to understand I'm nearly crazy
You need to know my life has gone to hell

Write me back and tell me why it ended
Send a letter that I can show my heart
I'll be somewhere between I love you and what you're feeling now
Looking for a place to fall apart

Looking for a place to fall apart
Trying to find a place that I can leave my heart
I need to be somewhere hidin' when I feel the teardrops start
Looking for a place to fall apart

I can't seem to justify your leavin' me
I'm bewildered as to how it all came down
I thought everything was fine until your phone call
The call that turned my world around

Send me word and tell me why it ended
I need some final proof to show my heart
I'll be somewhere between I love you and what you're feeling now
Looking for a place to fall apart

Looking for a place to fall apart...
Looking for a place to fall apart...

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3.

(# 54 country hit)

It's All In The Game

Carl Sigman - Charles Dawes

© Remick Music, ASCAP

Many a tear has to fall but it's all in the game
All in the wonderful game that we know as love
You had words with him and your future's looking dim
But those things your heart can rise above

Once in awhile he won't call but it's all in the game
Soon he'll be there at your side with a sweet bouquet
And he'll kiss your lips and caress your waiting fingertips
And your heart your heart will fly away

Once in awhile he won't call but it's all in the game...

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4.

Little Hotel Room

Freddy Powers

© Tree Pub, BMI

A one man celebration ain't what I had in mind
As I sit here sippin' on a glass of wine
There's a workin' telephone beside my bed
The way the calls are comin' in you'd think the line was dead

Oh there's no place like home
And it's lonesome in this little hotel room

Plaster on the ceiling just about to fall
There's a picture hangin' crooked on the wall
The music from the radio plays on
For a moment there I thought I heard our song

Oh there's no place like home
And it's lonesome in this little hotel room

Through the window I can see a falling star
And I wonder if you see it where you are
Now wouldn't it be somethin' if it's true
You would make the same wish that I do

Oh there's no place like home
And it's lonesome in this little hotel room
Yeah it's lonesome in this little hotel room

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5.

I Never Go Home Anymore

Merle Haggard

© Blue Book Music, BMI

I own a house on the edge of the city
A suburban mansion I'm told
But the power's all off and the phone lines are dead
And the hallways are lonely and cold

So I spend all my time in hotels and barrooms
Watching the whiskey they pour
Between airports and highways and the nightlife that's my way
I never go home anymore

I never go home anymore
There'd be no one to greet me if I came to the door
I stay around where there's parties and people too loud to ignore
But I never go home anymore anymore

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6.

All I Want To Do Is Sing My Song

Merle Haggard - Freddy Powers

© Tree Pub, BMI

All I want to do is sing my song
It's the only way to pacify my mind until I'm strong
The very thought of losing you chills me to the bone
And all I want to do is sing my song

All I want to do is sing my song
Don't want to think about the times she she done me wrong
I just want to ease my mind but the mem'ries are much too strong
And all I want to do is sing my song

All I want to do is sing my song
Maybe I'll find somebody else to help me sing along
There's something bout the melody makes the nights not seem so long
And all I want to do is sing my song

Brother Tiny

All I want to do is sing my song
And when the show is over I'll be waitin' by the phone
And if the phone starts ringin' with honey please come home
Who knows I might sing my way back home

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7.

(# 1 country hit)

Natural High

Freddy Powers

© Tree Pub, BMI

You stayed with me through thick and thin
You watched me lose you watched me win
You picked me up off the ground
You never one time let me down

And you put me on a natural high
And I can fly I can fly

I was drowning in a sea of make believe
As helpless as a falling leaf
You gave your hand to me that day
And you did it because you're made that way

And you put me on a natural high
And I can fly I can fly

You always seem to let your feelings show
You love me and you let me know
Darlin' just remember these three words
I love you I love you I love you

And you put me on a natural high
And I can fly I can fly
And you put me on a natural high
And I can fly I can fly

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8.

Thank Heaven For Little Girls

Alan Lerner - Fred Loewe

© Chappell Co, ASCAP

Each time I see a little girl bout five or six or seven
I can't resist the joyous urge to smile and say

Thank heaven for little girls
Cause little girls get bigger every day
Thank heaven for little girls
They grow up in the most delightful way

Their little eyes so helpless and appealin'
Someday will flash and have you crashin' through the ceilin'

Thank heaven for little girls
Thank heaven for them all
No matter where no matter who
Without them what would little boys do

Tell me Jim

Their little eyes so helpless and appealin'
Someday will flash and have you crashin' through the ceilin'

Thank heaven for little girls
Thank heaven for them all
No matter where no matter who
Without them what would little boys do
I ask you without them what would little boys do

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9.

To All The Girls I've Loved Before

Hal David - Albert Hammond

© April Music, ASCAP

To all the girls I've loved before
Who have wandered in and out my door
I'm glad they came along I dedicate this song
To all the girls I've loved before

To all the girls that I've caressed
And may I say I've held the best
For helping me to grow I owe a lot I know
To all the girls I've loved before

The winds of change are always blowin'
And everytime I try to stay
The winds of change continue blowin'
And they just carry me away

To all the girls who shared my life
Who now are someone else's wife
They live within my heart I'll always be a part
Of all the girls I've loved before

The winds of change are always blowin'...
To all the girls I've loved before...

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10.

You Really Lose Your Mind

Ernest Tubb

© Noma Music, BMI

If you love your mama and you treat her right
And she keeps on fussin' at you every day and night
She gonna trifle on ya she'll do it every time
And when your baby starts steppin' Lord you nearly lose your mind

If your mama's mean take a tip from me
Lock her in the closet and hang onto that key
She gonna trifle on ya they'll do it every time
And when your baby starts steppin' lord you'll nearly lose your mind

Alright Norm

Yes sir Roy

But if your mama's good I'll tell ya what to do
Give her lotsa lovin' love her watch her closely too
She gonna trifle on ya lord they do it every time
And when your baby starts steppin' lord you nearly lose your mind

Now you come home to your mama find your clothes ain't clean
You can bet you're slippin' if you get just what I mean
She gonna trifle on ya ah she'll do it every time
And when your baby starts steppin' lord you nearly lose your mind
Ah women'll drive you crazy

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