Merle Haggard - If We're Not Back In Love By Monday 1978

Merle Haggard If We're Not Back In Love By Monday Live performance 1978
Merle Haggard If We're Not Back In Love By Monday Lyrics

We can call Mrs. Johnson
To keep the kids a day or two
Take the early flight to Florida
Just the way we used to do
Let room service bring us breakfast
Make love all through the day
If we're not back in love by Monday
We can go our separate ways

[Chorus]
If we're not back in love by Monday
We can't say we didn't try
But before we bury our love
Let's make sure we've let it die
Sleep a few more nights together
Say the things we used to say
If we're not back in love by Monday
We can go our separate ways

We could find that little cafe
With the funny sounding name
Get the table by the window
I'll say I love you once again
If the violin player's still there
We'll dance you until the break of day
If we're not back in love by Monday
We can go our separate ways

[Chorus]
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[teresamcclanahan]

Loved this and anything Merle Haggard ever did sing! 🎶♥️🎶 Thanks so much for sharing, Loved it 😍😊

[jazzsounds]

Merle standing tall, like the oak he is. Thanks for the video.

[ginajames]

Oh Merle how I do miss you, I was just a kid when I fell in love with your voice and songs Daddy used to play! Year's passed before Porter Wagoner saw me just six weeks after I'd made the move into Nashville and got a job before I made that move as my boyfriend I'd met there, at the Nashville Palace a couple years before he was Country Music's legend George Jones bass player and George's right-hand man since he was just a kid himself! Ron Gaddis and I had had a hit before meeting with a label called Playback Records, but he got me gig's with him yet I was just a teenager and scared to make the move where the only people I knew there were on the rd. far more than they were home! So, after securing a job there in my sixth week there, after I'd come off stage and signed some autographs and posed with those who wanted a photo of this tall blonde with a voice that belted out, a guy who bussed tables said in this crowed large long room that Porter Wagoner was requesting to speak with me!


I with every step thought if this dude thinks he can convince me that he is Porter Wagoner as he started to come into view, as I saw a guy in a Bass Pro shop ball cap and a flannel shirt looking nothing like the man I had watched all my life I thought he got a heated entertainer with each step in 4-inch heeled boots! Finally, I reached this guys table and that old familiar voice was one I quickly recognized and from that moment my hands were shacking showing this kid was star struct as He said "Well Hello there, and in a night forever engrained in my soul as I had just met the man who was over the Grand Ole Opry as this was long after Roy Acuff had passed, and in the next week he'd gotten me signed in to playing with his televised portion Live ! he had signed me on to me my manager and producer and my seventh week there My family and friends back home were able to watch it live and my whole life changed!


In no time I was meeting all those who had so inspired my music like Merle, John, and June, Loretta, Waylon, and Willie and so many other's that I had only dreamed of meeting, but to then be able to not just call so many my hero's and inspiration I soon called them all my dearest friends! Porter like so many other dear friends like Vern, Earl Thomas C., and I could go on and on never got all of the recognition that they all so deserved! Porter had his on T.V show that ran for twenty-seven years, not to mention he was the longest signed artist ever signed to RCA, then just before he passed he was finally inducted into the Hall Of Fame, after watching so many he'd given their first break to be inducted so many years before! Today Country music isn't even Country to me, all pretty much but for a tiny few all sound alike to me when with my heroes and friends you knew exactly who they were from the first note on...I sure do miss the days when all my radio heroes were on the radio! Now I choose to listen to their great works on classic country stations! Thanking God that their records of so many that we've lost are still able to be heard!

[ryanfarley]

Happy Birthday Merle! He’s undoubtedly one of the most influential people in the country music world! 🎙📻🎻

[francesmoore]

Love this song! Merle in great voice as usual and funny when he changes the lyric and Bonnie changes it as well and he takes a swipe at her.😮😊

[primroseharan]

Fantastic love merle singing great post thanks for this

[justinkirkwood]

My favorite Merle song. Thanks for posting!

[mariececilelassere]

I love very real this song with perfect 🎸 and goldenvoice beautifull man one more I adore this White short very smart❤❤❤❤you are my 🌈💎💎💎😭 RIP with my great heartache immense croonercountrysongerman immense countrymusicman in all performances possibles ❤❤❤❤❤🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 peace hapyness and fliying in the Sky of haeven garden 😂😂😂 thanks !!! Thoughs respectueuses sincerelys friendlys to admirable Haggardfamily 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉(2024/22/08) billions love in eternity ❤ the super cowboy songer of my heart ❤