Merle Haggard - Turnin' Off A Memory lyrics

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(Merle Haggard)

(Spoken)

Let me tell you about a song

That I wrote especially for my friends with drinkin' problems

Or maybe I should say my friends with problems enough to drink

Anyway it's just an old theme of a man sittin' in a barroom

Tryin' to drown his past

It's called I'm Turnin' Off A Memory...

(Sang)

You can find me in dim lighted barroom

If your coldness should ever turn warm

But the chances of you ever changing

Are as slim as your two loving arms.

So I'm turnin' off a mem'ry

As quickly as time will allow

I'm turnin' off a mem'ry

And the wine seems to help me somehow.

If I'm lucky I'll some day forget you

When the wine finally takes full control

It's not much of a future to look to

But I can't stand this pain in my soul.

So I'm turnin' off a mem'ry

As quickly as time will allow

I'm turnin' off a mem'ry

And the wine seems to help me somehow.

And the wine seems to help me somehow...