Merle Haggard – No Time To Cry (Guitar)

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  My father died   a year ago today.

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  The rooster started crowing when they carried Dad away.

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  There beside my mother, in the living room, I stood,

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With my brother and my sister, knowing   Dad was gone for good.

        C
Well, I   stayed around just long enough,

G
  To lay him in the ground

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Then I    caught a plane to do a show up north in Detroit town.

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'Cause I'm older now    I ain't got no time to cry.

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I've got no time to look back, I've got no time to see,

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  The pieces of my heart that have been ripped away from me.

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And when the feelings start to coming, I've learned to stop 'em fast.

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`Cause I don't know, if I let 'em go, they might not wanna pass.

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And there's just   so many people trying to get me on the phone.

            Am
And there's bills to pay, and songs to play,

      F
And a house to make a home.

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And I'm older now   I ain't got no time to cry.

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  I can still remember   before there was a Merle.

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  So many things have changed so much here in my world.

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I remember   sitting on the front porch when an ambulance went by,

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While just listening to those sirens I would   break down and cry.

        C
Now I'm   walking and I'm talking,

           G
Doing just   what I'm supposed to do.

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  Working over time to make sure I don't come unglued.

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'Cause I'm older now   I ain't got no time to cry.

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I go lay down on the sofa and I watch the evening news:

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There's a half a dozen tragedies   from which to pick and choose.

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  The baby that was missing was found in a ditch today.

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And there's bombs a'flying and people dying not so far away.

            D
I'll take a beer out of the 'fridgerator,

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  Go sit out in the yard and with a cold one in my hand,

               G
I'm gonna bite down and swallow hard.

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'Cause I'm older now    I ain't got no time to cry.      It's true

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I guess I'm older now   I just ain't got no time to cry.

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No time to cry

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No time to cry

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No time to cry