I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am chords by Merle Haggard, Bonnie Owens, The Strangers
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Things I
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learned in a hobo jungle
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Were things they never taught me
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in a classroom
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Like where to find a handout
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While bumming through Chicago
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in the afternoon
Hey, I'm not bragging or complaining
I'm just talking to myself from
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man to man
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This old mental fight I'm chewing
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Didn't take a lot of doing
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But I take a lot of pride in what I am
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I guess I grew up a loner
I don't remember ever hav
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ing any folks around
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But I keep thumbing through
the phone books
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And looking for my daddy's name
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in every town
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And I meet lots of friendly people
But I always wind up leaving
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on the land
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Hey, where I've been or where I'm go ing
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It don't take a lot of knowing
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But I take a lot of pride in what I am
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I never travel in a hurry
Cause I got nobody wait
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Home is anywhere I'm living
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If it's sleepin' on some vacant bench
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in City Square
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Or if I'm workin' on some road gang
Or just livin' off the fat of our
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great land
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I've never been nobody's idol
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But at least I got a title
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And I take a lot of pride in what I am
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I've never been nobody's id ol,
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but at least I got a title
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And I take a lot of pride in what I am
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I take a lot of pride in what I am
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I take a lot of pride in what I am you
I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am
Merle Haggard, Bonnie Owens, The Strangers
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