I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink

by Merle Haggard

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-3  -4   5   6  -6  -7  -66
 
Could be hold-ing you to-night
 
  5     6  -6  6    -6     -4   5  6    5-4
 
Could quit do-ing wrong, start do-ing right
 
 -3   -4   -4-3   -3    4 -3   -3’’
 
You don’t care a-bout what I think
 
  5    6     6   -5   -4  4-3’  -2
 
Think I’ll just stay here and drink
 
 
 
 -3  -3  -3  -4   5    6     -6    -7   -66
 
Hey, put-tin you down don’t square the deal
 
  5    6    6   -6  6 -5  -4-3’
 
Least you know the way I feel
 
 -3  -3  -5  -5  -3  4  -3  -3’’
 
Take all the mon-ey in the bank
 
  5    6     6   -5   -4  4-3’  -2
 
Think I’ll just stay here and drink
 
 
 
-3    -4  -4   5    6   -6  -7 -66  
 
Hey, list-en close and you can hear
 
 5    6   -6   6   -6   -4  5  6  5-4
 
The loud juke-box play-in’ in my ear
 
 -3   -4 -4 -3   -3    4    -3  -3  -3  -3’’
 
Ain’t no wo-man gon’ change the way I think
 
  5     6    6   -5   -4  4-3’  -2 
 Think I’ll just stay here and drink
 
 
 
 -3  -3  -4   5    6    -6 -7   -66
 
Hurt-in’ me know don’t mean a thing
 
  5    6   6   -6    6    -5  -4  -3’
 
Since lov-in’ you, don’t feel no pain
 
-3  -5  -5 -3 4  -3   -3’’
 
My mind is a to-tal blank
 
  5     6    6   -5   -4   4-3’ -2
 
Think I’ll just stay here and drink
 
 
 
D
 
 
 
I like playing the -4’ instead of the -3’’.  I think it gives it a little “Southern Twang”.