Merle Haggard - Wishing All These Old Things Were New C = x32010 G = 320003 C7 = x32310 F = 133211 C/B = x22010 Am = x02210 *********************************************************************** C G Watching while some old friends do a line, G C Holding back the want to in my own addicted mind. C7 F C FmB Wishing it was still a thing even I could do, C G C Wishing all these old things were new. G C Watching while some young men go to jail, G C And they show it all on TV just to see somebody fail. C7 And I guess there's not a single thing G C FmB A man like me can do, C G C Wishing all these old things were new. G C Wishing all these old things were new, F C Am D G Good times like the roaring '20s and the roaring '80s too. F C C/B Am G F Thinking about the good old days, before it all fell through, C G C Wishing all these old things were new. C G C CmB INSTRUMENTAL G C The kids don't want my cigarettes around, G C They say its time that dad should lay tobacco down. C7 But if I could start all over, F C FmB Guess I'd still do what I do, C G C Wishing all these old things were new. G C Wishing all these old things were new, F C Am D G Good times like the roaring '20s and the roaring '80s too. F C C/B Am G F Thinking about the good old days, before it all fell through, C G C Wishing all these old things were new. G C Wishing all these old things were new.