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If I Could Only Fly by Merle Haggard - Guitar Chords

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Version 1

            C                        F
Almost felt you touching me just now
C                          G
I wish I knew which way to turn and go 
C                         F
I feel so good and then I feel so bad 
G7                      C       F       C
I wonder what I ought to do


Chorus:
F                               C
If I could only fly, if I could only fly 
             G                                  C
I’d bid this place goodbye and come and be with you 
          F                                 C
But I can hardly stand, and I got nowhere to run 
                G                       C
Another sinking sun, and one more lonely night

C                        F
Wind keeps blowing somewhere everyday
C                          G
Tell me things get better somewhere up the way 
C                         F
Just dismal thinking on a dismal day
G7                      C       F       C
And sad songs for us to bear

Solo over verse:

F                                C
If I could only fly, if we could only fly
             G                                   C
If we could only fly, there'd be no more lonely nights

 
C
You know sometimes I write happy songs
F
Then some little thing goes wrong
C                                   G     G7
And I wish they all could make you smile
C
Comin home soon and I want to stay 
F
Maybe we could somehow get away
G                                     C           F     C
And I wish you could come with me when I go again


Chorus:
F                               C
If I could only fly, if I could only fly 
             G                                  C
I’d bid this place goodbye and come and be with you 
          F                                 C
But I can hardly stand, and I got nowhere to run 
                G                       C
Another sinking sun, and one more lonely night



*I also like to play this without the capo using E, A & B7 in place of C, F & G.  I alternate playing E & A 
in standard open position with the following (kinda like how I've seen Merle do it playing live):

E 0x6454
A x07655
B7 x21202
 

[Verse]
E                        A
Almost felt you touching me just now
E                          B7
I wish I knew which way to turn and go 
E                         A
I feel so good and then I feel so bad 
B7                       E   A  E
I wonder what I ought to do


[Chorus]
           A                    E
If I could only fly, if I could only fly 
             B7                                 E
I’d bid this place goodbye and come and be with you 
          A                         E
But I can hardly stand, and I got nowhere to run 
        B7                               E
Another sinking sun, and one more lonely night 
        

We also have 31 songs by Merle Haggard

• A Place To Fall Apart
• Are The Good Times Really Over
• Big City
• Branded Man
• Daddy Frank
• Hungry Eyes
• I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am
• I Think Ill Just Stay Here And Drink
• If I Could Only Fly
• If We Make It Through December
• Im A Lonesome Fugitive
• Kern River
• Mama Tried
• Misery And Gin
• Miss The Mississippi And You
• My Favorite Memory
• Okie From Muskogee
• Ramblin Fever
• Reasons To Quit
• Silver Wings
• Sing Me Back Home
• Somewhere Between
• Swinging Doors
• Thats The Way Love Goes
• The Bottle Let Me Down
• The Fightin Side Of Me
• The Running Kind
• The Way I Am
• Today I Started Loving You Again
• Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Star
• Working Man Blues

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