Merle Haggard – Wishing All These Old Things Were New (Guitar)

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Watching while some old friends do a line,

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Holding back the want to in my own addicted mind.

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Wishing it was still a thing even I could do,

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Wishing all these old things were new.

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Watching while some young men go to jail,

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And they show it all on TV just to see somebody fail.

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And I guess there's not a single thing 

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A man like me can do,

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Wishing all these old things were new.

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Wishing all these old things were new,

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Good times like the roaring '20s and the roaring '80s too.

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Thinking about the good old days, before it all fell through,

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Wishing all these old things were new.

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The kids don't want my cigarettes around,

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They say its time that dad should lay tobacco down.

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But if I could start all over, 

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Guess I'd still do what I do,

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Wishing all these old things were new.

G                                 C
Wishing all these old things were new,

     F                       C           Am           D    G
Good times like the roaring '20s and the roaring '80s too.

F                                   C       C/B Am   G   F
Thinking about the good old days, before it all fell through,

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Wishing all these old things were new.

                  G               C
Wishing all these old things were new.