Haggard Merle

I'm A Lonesome Fugitive
Merle Haggard

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Down every road there's always one more city
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I'm on the run, the highway is my home

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I raised a lot of cane back in my younger days
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While Mama used to pray my crops would fail
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Now I'm a hunted fugitive with just two ways:
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Outrun the law or spend my life in jail

CHORUS
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I'd like to settle down but they won't let me
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A fugitive must be a rolling stone
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Down every road there's always one more city
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I'm on the run, the highway is my home


I'm lonely but I can't afford the luxury
Of having one I love to come along
She'd only slow me down and they'd catch up with me
For he who travels fastest goes alone

CHORUS

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I'm on the run, the highway is my home