In My Next Life by Viking Cowboy

Artist: Merle Haggard Album: 1994 Släpptes: 1994 --------------------LYRICS------------------- “In My Next Life“ The blood red sun beat down and baked the red clay ground Dust kicked up around his John Deere wheels No trace of rain in sight again he’ll lose the fight And have to watch his crops die in the fields They stood there both in tears, his wife of many years Said, “John you know I hate to lose our farm“ He looked into her eyes then looked up at the skies And told her as he held her in his arms In my next life I want to be your hero Somethin’ better than I turned out to be I’ve lived this life behind the Plough and harrow In my next life I’ll make you proud of me The muscles in his arms just like his rundown farm Soon withered up and slowly disappeared One hard workin’ man, two hard workin’ hands Were givin’ up after all these years His a