In My Next Life Chords by Merle Haggard

[C] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _
[C] The blood red sun beat down [F] and baked the red clay ground
[G] and dust kicked up around his John [C] Deere wheels.
No trace of rain in sight.
[F] Again he'll lose the fight [G] and have to watch his crops die [C] in the fields.
[G]
[C] They stood there both in tears.
[F] His wife for many years [G] said,
John, you know I hate to lose [C] our farms.
He looked into her eyes, [F] then looked up at the sky,
[G] and told her as he held her in [C] his arms,
[G] In [C] my next life I want to be [F] your hero.
Something [G] better than I turned out [C] to be.
_ [G] I [C] left this life behind to fly [F] on hail,
_ but in [G] my next life I'll make you proud of [C] me. _ _
[F] _ _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _ _
[C] The muscles in his arms, [F] just like his run down farm,
[Dm]
[G] soon withered up and slowly [C] disappeared.
One _ hard working man, [F] two hard working hands,
[G] were given up after all [C] these years.
[G] _
[C] His aging eyes grew dim, [F] and the lady that worshipped him
sat [G] crying on a chair [C] beside his bed.
Her hands pressed as bright, [F] she said it's alright now,
[Am]
[G] and daddy slowly slipped away [C] to say,
_ [G] In [C] my next life I want to be [F] your hero.
Something [G] better than I turned out [C] to be.
_ [G] I [C] left this life behind to fly [F] on hail,
_ but in [G] my next life I'll make you proud [C] of me.
[A] In [D] my next life I want to be [G] your hero.
Something [A] better than I turned out [D] to be.
[A] I [D] left this life behind to fly [G] on hail,
but in [A] my next life I'll make you proud [D] of me.
In [A] my next life I'll make you proud [D] of me. _ _
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