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Merle Haggard – Footlights | Track profile | Dork

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Merle Haggard
Down Every Road 1962-1994
Footlights

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Footlights

From Down Every Road 1962-1994

Track 5

4:03

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"Footlights" is a track by Merle Haggard, from the album Down Every Road 1962-1994. The track is 4:03 long. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Merle Haggard

Merle Haggard

Lyrics

Footlights

I live the kinda life most men only dream of
I make my livin' writin' songs and singin' them
But I'm forty-one years old and I ain't got no place to go when it's over
So I hide my age and make the stage and
Try to kick the footlights out again

I throw my old guitar across the stage and
Then my bassman takes the ball
And the crowd goes nearly wild to see
My guitar nearly fall
After twenty years of pickin' we're still alive
And kickin' and kickin' down the wall
Tonight I'll kick the footlights out
And walk away without a curtain call

Tonight I'll kick the footlights out again
And try to hide the mood I'm really in
And put on my old Instamatic grin
Tonight I'll kick the footlights out again

I live the kinda life that most men only dream of
I make my livin' writin' songs and singin' them
But I'm forty-one years old and I ain't got no place to go when it's over
So I hide my age and make the stage and
Try to kick the footlights out again

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Track details

From Down Every Road 1962-1994

4:03

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Album

Down Every Road 1962-1994

Track number

5

1Skid Row (Down Every Road Version)
1:47
2Sing a Sad Song
2:34
3You Don't Even Try
2:18
4Sam Hill
2:33
5My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers
2:30
6Just Between the Two of Us
2:45
7If I Had Left It Up to You
2:25
8I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can
2:00
9Swinging Doors (Down Every Road Version)
2:53
10The Bottle Let Me Down (Down Every Road Version)
2:49
11High On a Hilltop
2:59
12I'll Look Over You
2:10
13The Fugitive
2:59
14House of Memories
2:48
15All of Me Belongs to You
2:41
16Mary's Mine
2:58
17Someone Told My Story
2:34
18Go Home
2:35
19Whatever Happened to Me
2:58
20Loneliness Is Eating Me Alive
2:36
21I Threw Away the Rose
3:22
22Branded Man
3:07
23You Don't Have Very Far to Go
2:20
24Somewhere Between
3:07
25Sing Me Back Home
2:50
26The Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp
3:00
27Seeing Eye Dog
2:00
1The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde
2:06
2Today I Started Loving You Again
2:23
3Is This the Beginning of the End?
3:04
4I'll Always Know
2:23
5Mama Tried
2:13
6In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)
2:45
7Teach Me to Forget
3:15
8I'm Looking for My Mind
2:11
9The Day the Rains Came
2:41
10California Blues (Blue Yodel No. 4)
2:50
11I Take a Lot of Pride In What I Am
2:48
12I'm Bringin' Home Good News
2:48
13I Can't Hold Myself In Line
2:55
14It Meant Goodbye to Me When You Said Hello to Him
2:32
15Hungry Eyes
3:29
16Silver Wings
2:44
17Waitin' for a Train
2:52
18Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel (The Women Make a Fool Out of Me)
3:08
19California Cottonfields
2:48
20White Line Fever (Down Every Road Version)
2:50
21Workin' Man Blues
2:35
22Okie from Muskogee (Down Every Road Version)
2:44
23I Can't Stop Loving You (Live)
2:54
24Huntsville
3:07
25Irma Jackson
2:28
26The Fightin' Side of Me (December 1969)
2:53
27I'll Be a Hero (When I Strike) (March 1970)
2:04
1Right or Wrong (Down Every Road Version)
2:39
2Trouble In Mind
3:15
3Stay a Little Longer
2:49
4The Farmer's Daughter
2:55
5Tulare Dust
1:48
6Carolyn
2:33
7Someday We'll Look Back
2:31
8Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)
3:10
9Grandma Harp
2:12
10It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)
3:21
11I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me
2:50
12If We Make It Through December
2:43
13The Emptiest Arms In the World
2:53
14Everybody's Had the Blues (Live Rehearsal)
3:07
15Things Aren't Funny Anymore
2:42
16Honky Tonk Night Time Man
2:39
17Holding Things Together
2:59
18Here In Frisco
2:30
19Kentucky Gambler
2:41
20Always Wanting You
3:07
21Living With the Shades Pulled Down
2:56
22Running Kind
3:03
23It's All In the Movies
3:13
24The Way It Was In '51
3:22
25I Never Go Around Mirrors
2:44
26What Have You Got Planned Tonight, Diana
3:09
1If We're Not Back In Love By Monday
3:16
2Ramblin' Fever
3:10
3It's Been a Great Afternoon
2:47
4Red Bandana
2:33
5Footlights
4:03
6My Own Kind of Hat
2:55
7Misery and Gin
2:50
8Leonard
3:39
9I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink
4:32
10Rainbow Stew
2:38
11Big City
3:02
12Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)
4:15
13You Take Me for Granted
2:44
14Pancho and Lefty
4:48
15That's the Way Love Goes
3:03
16Someday When Things Are Good
17Let's Chase Each Other Around the Room
2:51
18Kern River
3:23
19Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star
3:25
20In My Next Life
3:51

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