Chorus:
There’ll be no more you and me
There’ll be only misery
Cause you and him, me and loneliness
But no more you and me

I don’t have to see his arms wrapped around you
To know you’ve chosen him instead of me
But just to know you’d be with him, I called the place you’d been
I had to verify the thing I couldn’t see

Chorus

INTRO: D

How did you find me, how did you know
I’d be here in this hole in the ground
I can’t even see out over the edge
Lookin’ up from all the way down

I thought I’d been left here to die
When I saw your face appear
What a surprise
How did you find me here

CHORUS:
I thought I could do it, all of it, all by myself
I thought I could win every round
Then I hit rock bottom and the blues I got ‘em and you lifted me out of my fear
How did you find me here

SOLO: G D A G A7 D

CHORUS

OUTRO: G D A

Then I hit rock bottom and the blues I got ‘em and you lifted me out of the fear
But how did you find me here, thank you Lord

(Verse 2)
Love is always special, especially to the heart.
When it?s love on sight, and all is right, and there?s
No doubt from the start.
Before it starts to crumble, there?ll be many shades of blue.
D A D ? G ? D
Ah, but love is always pretty when it?s new.

(Chorus)
Love is always pretty, when it?s new.
Hey, there?s nothing bad about it, ?til your lover says, ?We?re
through.?
Old love?s even sweeter, that old saying?s really true.
D A D ? G ? D
Love is always pretty when it?s new.

(instrumental break)

(repeat chorus)

(Thanks to Bwana Paul for tabs)

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I’M AN OLD, OLD MAN (Tryin’ To Live While I Can)
As recorded by: Merle Haggard
Writer: Lefty Frizzell

Said an old man to a good-lookin’ girl
Well, I’ve been around this big, wide world
That home on the hill, well, honey that’s mine
I’ve got the money if you’ve got the time.

CHORUS
Well, I’m not too old to cut the mustard anymore
I can stlll get around like I did before
So come along with me my sweet, sweet hon
I’m an old, man lookin’ for fun.

What I can do now, most young men can’t
There’s not a town this old boy can’t paint
I can make all the night clubs any old time
I may be a little old but I’m doin’ all right.

CHORUS
Well, I’m not too old to cut the mustard anymore
I can stlll get around like I did before
So come along with me, my sweet, sweet hon
I’m an old, old man lookin’ for fun.

Don’t take me wrong I just want have fun
Have someone along to help me spend my mon
‘Cause you don’t live but once, so please understand
That I’m an old, old man tryin’ to live while I can.

SOURCE:
Merle Haggard/The Way It Was In ’51
1978 Capitol Records R150047

NOTE.
Originally recorded by Lefty Frizzell

Well, I’ve been everywhere running both day and night
With the pain of loving you right close behind
And I’ve tried everything and whether I’m wrong or right
There’s just one way I found to ease my mind.

And I’m gonna lose myself…

Capo on the 2nd fret!
All Chords are relative to the capo.

E 022100 B 224442

A 002220

Down every road there’s always one more city,
I’m on the run the highway is my home.

I raised a lotta cain back in my younger days,
While mama used to pray my crops would fail.
Now I’m a hunted fugitive with just two way’s,
Outrun the law or spend my life in jail.

Chorus:
I’d like to settle down but they won’t let me,
A fugitive must be a rollin stone.
Down every road there’s always one more city,
I’m on the run the highway is my home.

I’m lonely but I can’t afford the luxury,
Of having the one I love to come along.
She’d only slow me down and they catch up with me,
For he who travels fastest goes alone.

Sing Chorus
I’m on the run the highway is my home.

I sit alone at my table and watch all the others have fun

And I’m tired of sittin’ on the side of track a watchin’ the
mainline run
I’m tired of havin’ no future just livin’ on things that I’ve done
And I’m tired of sittin’ on the side of track a watchin’ the
mainline run

Chorus:
Train train don’t leave me oh train of life
I got no one to call me their darling to hug me and call me their
hon
And I’m tired of sittin’ on the side of track just a watchin’ the
mainline run

I’m tired of havin’ no future…

Chorus:
Train train don’t leave me oh train of life

Instrumental:

Chorus:

#When the sunlight heats our homes, not satellites
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##This file is the author’s own work and represents their interpretation of the #
##song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
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#
#Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 23:17:23 -0600
#From: Ken Keefover
#Subject: Rainbow Stew by Merle Haggard
#
#Rainbow Stew
#Written & performed by Merle Haggard
#c1982 MCA Records (Contact MCA for publisher, I lost the liner notes)
#
#Verse 1:
There’s a big, brown cloud in the city, And the country side’s a sin.
The price of life is too high to give up, It’s gotta come down again.
The world wide war is over and done, And the dream of peace come thru.
We’ll all be drinkin’ that free bubble-up, And eatin’ that Rainbow Stew.
Verse 2:
When they find out how to burn water, And the gasoline car is gone.
When an airplane flies without any fuel, And the sunlight heats our home.
One of these days when the air clears up, And the sun comes shinin’ thru.
We’ll all be drinkin’ that free bubble-up, And eatin’ that Rainbow Stew.
Chorus
Eatin’ Rainbow Stew in a silver spoon underneath that sky of blue.
We’ll all be drinkin’ that free bubble-up, And eatin’ that Rainbow Stew.
Verse 3:
You don’t have to get high to get happy, Just think about what’s in store.
When people start doin’ what they oughta be doin’,
Then they won’t be booin’ no more.
When a President goes through the White House doors, Does what he says he’ll do.
We’ll all be drinkin’ that free bubble-up, And eatin’ that Rainbow Stew.
Chorus
Chorus

Capo 4
(Or Capo 1 and play

D F
Em Gm
A Bb
G C

The longer you wait to leave me
The longer I’ll hurt when youre gone
And the longer it takes for you to break my heart
The longer the pain lingers on

Chorus:
How long will you prolong my misery
Wish I could leave on my own
Cause the longer you wait to leave me
The longer I’ll hurt when youre gone

Solo

We both know that you never loved me
I lied to myself from the start
And we both know that some day you’ll leave me
And the knowing just tears me apart

Chorus

INTRO: D(1) A(5) D(1)

D(1) A(5)
You taught me how to love with all my heart
D(1)
With all my soul, I trusted you
A(5)
And now you say we have to live apart
D(1)
A thing I don’t know how to do

CHORUS:
G(4)
You say someday I’ll find somebody new
D(1) A(5)
And I’ll have not one regret
D(1) A(5)
Stay awhile if what you say is true
D(1)
Stay and teach me to forget

BREAK D(1) A(5) D(1) A(5) D(1)

D(1) A(5)
You taught me how to worship you alone
D(1)
And now you say that you must go
A(5)
And people call me on the telephone
D(1)
Just to say I told you so

CHORUS

A(5) D(1)
Stay and teach me to forget