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What Ain’t To Be, Just Might Happen

This version of What Ain’T To Be, Just Might Happen was released by Dolly Parton in 1972.

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I’ve learned to live my life just a little bit lighter
Gonna look on the lonely days just a little bit brighter
My heart’s been throwed around and it ain’t done enough laughin’
What is to be will be what ain’t to be just might happen
It don’t do no good to worry none just turns your hair gray while you’re young
Love can make you sing start your hands a clappin’
What is to be will be what ain’t to be just might happen

Why you can’t never tell when love might find you
It could be miles away or right behind you
Some makes you hurt real bad some makes you happy
What is to be will be what ain’t to be just might happen
Don’t do no good to worry none…

I had a love one time sent me out on a ledge
Well it’s fourteen stories high standin’ on the edge
I don’t want that kind no more to start my world a crackin’
What is to be will be what ain’t to be just might happen
Don’t do no good to worry none…
What is to be will be what ain’t to be just might happen

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Dolly Parton has released many songs over the years besides What Ain’T To Be, Just Might Happen. Dolly Parton released songs from 1967 to 2005 spanning across albums like Hello, I'm Dolly, Just Because I'm A Woman, My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy, In The Good Old Days, As Long As I Love, The Fairest Of Them All, A Real Live Dolly, Coat Of Many Colors, The Golden Streets Of Glory, Joshua, Touch Your Woman, My Favorite Songwriter: Porter Wagoner, Bubbling Over, My Tennessee Mountain Home, Love Is Like A Butterfly, Jolene, Dolly: The Seeker / We Used To, The Bargain Store, All I Can Do, New Harvest... First Gathering, Here You Come Again, Heartbreaker, Great Balls Of Fire, 9 To 5 And Odd Jobs, Dolly, Dolly, Dolly, Heartbreak Express, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, Burlap & Satin, Rhinestone, The Great Pretender, Real Love, Rainbow, White Limozeen, Home For Christmas, Eagle When She Flies, Straight Talk, Slow Dancing With The Moon, Heartsongs: Live From Home, Something Special, Treasures, Hungry Again, The Grass Is Blue, Precious Memories, Little Sparrow, Halos & Horns, For God And Country, and Those Were The Days. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Dolly Parton.

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