Karaoké Red Bandana Merle Haggard

We left home when we was barely past eleven-teen

We've been back and forth and all around through hell and rain

I've loved you half of your life and I'll keep on lovin' you but I can't change and live the way you want me to

We spent a lot of time out on the highway

Comin' from some town we played along the way

After thirty years of knowin' me the way you do you know I can't change and live the way you want me to but baby

That red bandana tied around your auburn hair

You look like you ought to be somebody's wife somewhere

Yeah you're never gonna be no Bobby McGee but you're tryin' to

But I can't change and live the way you want me to

Every time you leave the stage

I know you've had your fill

And I wonder why you grew up and how I never will

Hey I'm forty-one today

Still goin' on twenty-two

But I can't change and live the way you want me to

That red bandana tied around your auburn hair

You look like you ought to be somebody's wife somewhere

Yeah you're never gonna be no Bobby McGee but you're tryin' to

Yeah but I can't change and live the way you want me to

No I can't change and live the way you want me to