Merle Haggard - Wishing All These Old Things Were New

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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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INSTRUMENTAL


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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,
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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,
C                 G               C
Wishing all these old things were new.
                  G               C
Wishing all these old things were new.