The song In My Next Life is performed by Merle Haggard in the album named Down Every Road in the year 1996 .
The blood red sun beat down and baked the red clay ground
Dust kicked up around his John Deere wheels
No trace of rain in sight, again he'll lose the fight
And have to watch his crops die in the fields
They stood there both in tears, his wife of many years
Said John, "You know I hate to lose our farm"
He looked into her eyes then looked up at the skies
And told her as he held her in his arms
"In my next life, I want to be your hero
Somethin' better than I turned out to be
I've lived this life behind the plough and harrow
In my next life, I'll make you proud of me"
The muscles in his arms just like his run down farm
Soon withered up and slowly disappeared
One hard workin' man, two hard workin' hands
Were givin' up after all these years
His aging eyes grew dim and the lady that worshiped him
Sat cryin' on a chair beside his bed
Her hands caressed his brow and she said it's alright now
And as he slowly slipped away, he said
"In my next life, I want to be your hero
Somethin' better than I turned out to be
I've lived this life behind the plough and harrow
In my next life, I'll make you proud of me"
"In my next life, I want to be your hero
Somethin' better than I turned out to be
I've lived this life behind the plough and harrow
In my next life, I'll make you proud of me
In my next life, I'll make you proud of me"
Merle Haggard - Down Every Road
- Skid Row
- Sing A Sad Song
- You Don't Even Try
- Sam Hill
- (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers
- Just Between The Two Of Us
- If I Had Left It Up To You
- I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can
- Swinging Doors
- The Bottle Let Me Down
- High On A Hilltop
- I'll Look Over You
- The Fugitive
- House Of Memories
- All Of Me Belongs To You
- Mary's Mine
- Someone Told My Story
- Go Home
- Whatever Happened To Me
- Loneliness Is Eating Me Alive
- I Threw Away The Rose
- Branded Man
- You Don't Have Very Far To Go
- Somewhere Between
- Sing Me Back Home
- The Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp
- Seeing Eye Dog
- The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde
- I Started Loving You Again
- Is This The Beginning Of The End?
- I'll Always Know
- Mama Tried
- In The Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)
- Teach Me To Forget
- I'm Looking For My Mind
- The Day The Rains Came
- California Blues (Blue Yodel #4)
- I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am
- I'm Bringin' Home Good News
- I Can't Hold Myself In Line
- It Meant Goodbye To Me When You Said Hello To Him
- Hungry Eyes
- Waitin' For A Train
- Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel (The Women Make A Fool Out Of Me)
- California Cottonfields
- White Line Fever
- Workin' Man Blues
- Okie From Muskogee
- I Can't Stop Loving You
- Huntsville
- Irma Jackson
- The Fightin' Side Of Me
- I'll Be A Hero (When I Strike)
- Right Or Wrong
- Trouble In Mind
- Stay A Little Longer
- The Farmer's Daughter
- Tulare Dust
- Carolyn
- Someday We'll Look Back
- Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)
- Grandma Harp
- It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)
- I Wonder If They Ever Think Of Me
- The Emptiest Arms In The World
- Everybody's Had The Blues
- Things Aren't Funny Anymore
- Honky Tonk Night Time Man
- Holding Things Together
- Here In Frisco
- Kentucky Gambler
- Always Wanting You
- Living With The Shades Pulled Down
- Running Kind
- It's All In The Movies
- The Way It Was In '51
- I Never Go Around Mirrors
- What Have You Got Planned Tonight Diana
- If We're Not Back In Love By Monday
- Ramblin' Fever
- It's Been A Great Afternoon
- Misery And Gin
- Leonard
- I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink
- Rainbow Stew
- Big City
- Are The Good Times Really Over (I Wish A Buck Was Still Silver)
- You Take Me For Granted
- Pancho And Lefty
- That's The Way Love Goes
- Someday When Things Are Good
- Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room
- Kern River
- Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star
- In My Next Life
- Silver Wings
- If We Make It Through December
- Red Bandana
- Footlights
- My Own Kind Of Hat
- Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room
- Kern River
- Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star
- In My Next Life