Sing Me Back Home
By Merle Haggard
 
 

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The warden led a prisoner
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Down the hallway to his doom
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I stood up to say goodbye like all the rest
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I heard him tell the warden
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Just before he reached my cell
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Let my guitar playing friend do my request
 
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Let him sing me back home
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With the songs I used to hear
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Make my old memories come alive
G       D7       C             G     
Take me away and turn back the years
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Let him sing me back home before I die
 
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I recall last Sunday morning
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A choir came off the street
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Came in to sing a few old gospel songs
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I heard him tell the singers
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There's a song my mamma sang
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Could I hear it once before you move along