Merle Haggard – Today I Started Loving You Again

“Today I Started Loving You Again” is a song written by Merle Haggard and Bonnie Owens. Haggard first recorded it as a B-side to his number 1 hit “The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde”, but it failed to chart. From Album The Legend of Bonnie & Clyde 1968.

The song was later recorded by Al Martino, followed by many other artists, including Waylon Jennings, Martina McBride, Gene Summers, Charlie McCoy, David Peters, Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, Bettye Swann, Connie Smith, Sammi Smith, Bobby Bland, Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton. More recently it was recorded by Jeff Carson and Merle Haggard for Carson’s 1997 Album Butterfly Kisses.

Merle Haggard – Today I Started Loving You Again Lyrics

Today I Started Loving You Again
I’m right back where I’ve really always been;
I got over you just long enough to let my heartache mend,
then Today I Started Loving You Again.

What a fool I was to think I could get by
With only these few million tears I’ve cried.
I should have known the worst was yet to come.
And that crying time for me had just begun.

‘Cause Today I Started Loving You Again,
I’m right back where I’ve really always been;
I got over you just long enough to let my heartache mend,
then Today I Started Loving You Again.