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Artist: Merle Haggard
Canonical path: /merle-haggard/my-friends-are-gonna-be-strangers
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(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers
Read (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers lyrics by Merle Haggard on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers
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Oh, the love you promised would be mine forever
I would have bet my bottom dollar on
Well, it sure turned out to be a short forever
Just once I turned my back and you were gone
From now on all my friends are gonna be strangers
I'm all through ever trusting anyone
the only thing I can count on now is my fingers
I was a fool believing in you, now you are gone
It amazes me, not knowing any better
than to think I had a love who would be true
Why, I should be taken out, tarred and feathered
to have let myself be taken in by you
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Merle Haggard performs "(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers", and this lyric page sits inside the Merle Haggard catalog on LyroVerse.
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