Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am chords by Merle Haggard

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Take A augmentedA Lot Of Pride In What I Am.
Merle Haggard.
Album: Pride In What I Am.

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Things I learned in a hobo jungle,
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Were things they never taught me in a classroom,
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Like where to find a handout,
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While thumbing through Chicago in the afternoon,
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Hey, I'm not bragging or complaining,
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Just talking to myself man to man,
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This old mental fat I'm chewing didn't take a lot of 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,
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And I meet lots of friendly people,
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That I always end up leaving on the lam,
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Hey where I've been or where I'm going,
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Didn't take a lot of 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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Cause 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,
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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,
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I take a lot of pride in what I am,
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I take a lot of pride in what I am...