Merle Haggard Are The Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)

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[Songwriter: Merle Haggard]

[Verse 1]
I wish a buck was still silver
It was back when the country was strong
Back before Elvis
Before the Vietnam war came along

[Chorus 1]
Before The Beatles and 'Yesterday
When a man could still work, still would
The best of the free life behind us now
And are the good times really over for good?

[Chorus 2]
Are we rolling down hill
Like a snowball headed for Hell?
With no kind of chance
For the Flag or the Liberty Bell

Wish a Ford and a Chevy
Could still last ten years, like they should
Is the best of the free life behind us now?
Are the good times really over for good?

[Verse 2]
I wish Coke was still Cola
And a joint was a bad place to be
It was back before Nixon lied to us all on TV

[Chorus 1]

[Chorus 2](x2)