Come On Sixty Five chords by Merle Haggard

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Somewhere on the old Kern River there's an old cane pole

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That waits for me  patiently  this city job might drag me down

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But one fine day I'm gonna be set free  wait and see

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And then I'm gonna go down to where the waters touch the sky

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Where the old men's laughter goes like a lullaby

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Sixty five c'mon sixty five  it's a sin to waste my life away

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But I can't wait till I'm sixty five c'mon sixty five

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There's a gold watch if I get out alive  past sixty five


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Now somewhere in my memories I recall a boy

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Seventeen  full of dreams  dreams and life just stripped away

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A layer at a time now what's left  ain't hardly me

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Oh but I saved up a little here and there to get me by

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Enough to mend my ragged wings and once again I'll fly


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Sixty five c'mon sixty five  it's a sin to waste my life away
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But I can't wait till I'm sixty five c'mon sixty five
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Lord the object of the games is to survive  past sixty five


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I've heard it said that hard work never did a body's body

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Any harm  well they were wrong  cause all these years of lifting things

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I should of left alone took their toll  my will was strong

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And the day that I walk out of here I'll hold my head up high

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Then I'll pawn this stupid watch and kiss thirty years goodbye


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Sixty five c'mon sixty five  it's a sin to waste my life away

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But I can't wait till I'm sixty five c'mon sixty five

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There's a gold watch if I get out alive  past sixty five


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Now somewhere on the old Kern River there's an old cane pole

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