Merle Haggard - I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am Chords

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Things I learned in hobo jungle

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Were things they never taught me in a class room

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Like where to find a hand out

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While bumming through Chicago in the afternoon

 
             
Hey I'm not bragging or complaining 

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I'm just talking to myself man to man

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This ole mental fat I'm chewing didn't take a lotta doing

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But I take a lot of pride in what I am

 
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I guess I grew up a loner

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I don't remember ever having any folks around

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But I keep thumbing through the phone books

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And looking for my daddy's name in every town


           
And I meet lots of friendly people
 
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That I always wind up leaving on the lam

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Hey where I've been or where I'm going didn't take a lotta knowing

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But I take a lot of pride in what I am


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I never travel in a hurry

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Because I got nobody waiting for me anywhere

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Home is anywhere I'm living

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If it's sleeping on some vacant bench in City Square


          
Or if I'm working on some road gang
 
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Or just living off the fat of our great land

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I never been nobody's idol but at least I got a title

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And I take a lot of pride in what I am 



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I never been nobody's idol but at least I got a title

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And I take a lot of pride in what I am