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


Merle Haggard
"Classics [1996]"


1. (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers
2. I Threw Away The Rose