Sing Me Back Home

Ladies and gentlemen
 Let us do a serious type song for you
 This is a Merle Haggard song
 And, we're gonna do it for ya
 Sing me back home
 And let's dedicate this to Merle Haggard
 In Bakersfield, California
 The warden let the prisoner
 Down the hallway to his doom
 I stood up to say goodbye like all the rest
 And I heard him tell the warden
 Just before he reached my cell
 Let my guitar playing friend do my request
 Let him sing me back home
 With the song I used to hear
 Make my old mem'ries come alive
 Take me away and turn back the years
 Sing me back home before I die
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 I recall last Sunday morning
 A choir from off the street
 Came in to sing a few old gospel songs
 And I heard him ask the singers
 "There's a song my mama sang"
 "Could I hear it once before you move along?"
 Won't you sing me back home
 With the song I used to hear
 Make my old mem'ries come alive
 Take me away and turn back the years
 Sing me back home before I die
 Sing me back home before I die
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 I tell you somethin'
 He told me that he had lots of relatives over here
 But he didn't say how many
 Well, it's great to be here
 And all I only know that you probably
 Have a few hundred words you like to say
 Go ahead, I don't care
 Say whatever you want
 It's the first time we ever been here
 For the way you're going to be the last
 So, live it up
 You look awful, you're acting ignorant
 I don't know what's matter with you?
 What is the matter with you?
 I didn't get any sleep last night
 You went in your bedroom at 12 o'clock
 I still didn't get any sleep
 Well, I'd ask you what you did
 But I don't wanna know
 Well, I'll tell you
 No, don't tell me
 Listen, 12 o'clock
 That's enough sleep for everybody, man
 I'm sorry, but that's
 This girl kept banging on my door, all night long
 Bangs on your door all night long? So?
 Finally, about four o'clock
 I had to let her out