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Artist/Band: Merle Haggard
Lyrics for Song: I Threw Away The Rose
Lyrics for Album: Down Every Road [1996]



(Merle Haggard)



Once I lived a life of wine and roses

And I drank a lot back then for one concern

Success for me lay just around the corner

I thought my social friends would help me make me turn.



But now I'm paying for the days of wine and roses

A victim of the drunken life I chose

Now all my social friends look down their noses

'Cause I kept the wine and threw away the rose.



--- Instrumental ---



I stood by and watched the bottle take control of me

The turn I made was not the one I'd planned

And I watched my social standings slip away from me

While I watched the bottle slowly take command.



Now I'm paying for the days of wine and roses

A victim of the drunken life I chose

Now all my social friends look down their noses

Cause I kept the wine and threw away the rose...


Album Lyrics: Down Every Road [1996]


Merle Haggard
"Down Every Road [1996]"


1. I Threw Away The Rose
2. Stay A Little Longer
3. Loneliness Is Eatin' Me Alive
4. Go Home
5. You Don't Even Try
6. All Of Me Belongs To You
7. Mary's Mine
8. Whatever Happened To Me
9. Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp
10. Seeing Eye Dog
11. Is This The Beginning Of The End
12. Waiting For A Train
13. I'll Be A Hero (When I Strike)
14. Trouble In Mind
15. Someday When Things Are Good
16. In My Next Life