Chords for MERLE HAGGARD - Wishing All These Old Things Were New

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_ _ Watching while some [G] old friends [C] do a line, _ _ _
_ _ Holding back the want to in [G] my own addicted [C] _
mind,
_ _ _ _ _ Wishing it was still a [F] thing even I could [C] _ do.
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_ _ [C] _ Wishing all [G] these old things [C] were new, _ _ _ _
_ _ Watching while [G] some young men go [C] to jail,
_ And _ _ they show it all on TV _ [G] just to see _ [C] somebody fail,
_ _ _ And I guess there's not a single [F] thing a man like me [C] can [G] do.
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_ _ _ Wishing all [G] these old [C] things were new, _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ Wishing all these _ old things were _ new,
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_ Good [F] times like [Dm] the roaring [C]
twenties _ [Am] and the roaring _ [Eb] [D] eighties _ too,
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Thinking about the good old days [C] before [G] it [Am] all fell [G] _ [F] through,
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Wishing all [G] these old things [C] were new. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] The _ _ _ _ _ _ kids don't want [G] my cigarettes [C] around,
_ They _ _ _ say it's time that dad _ [G] should lay tobacco [C] _ down, _ _ _
But if I could start all over, guess I'd still do what I do.
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Wishing all [G] these old things [C] were new,
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Wishing all these old things [A] were _ new,
_ [C] _ Good [F] times like the roaring [C] twenties _ [Am] and the roaring [D] eighties _ too,
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_ _ [F] _ Thinking about the good old days [C] before [G] it [Am] all fell [G] through,
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_ _ _ Wishing all [G] these old [C] things were new, _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Wishing all [G] these old things [C] were new. _ _ _ _
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