Merle Haggard Lyrics

    ------ About the song Reasons To Quit performed by Merle Haggard

This is a song that I have longed to learn since the '80s. I heard it on the radio the other day and looked it up and played it and now I can't get it our of my mind - but why would I? I am experiencing the use of a drum/bass machine and would like to know the tempo that those

    ------ About the song I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am performed by Merle Haggard

I heard this song last Sunday on Rick Jackson's Country Hall of Fame for the first time and loved it. I grew up on classic country and have always loved hobo songs, of which this just may be the best. It's ingenious if you really listen to the words. This song also raised sentimental connections for me because I think this is exactly the sort of thing my Dad would've said. He was a self-made man if I ever met one, and he certainly did take a lot of pride in what he was. Merle Haggard has helped me do what years of striving, arguing and cajoling could not. He helped me understand my dad better, and see things for a moment through his point of view. Thanks Merle, wherever you are.

    ------ About the song Okie from Muskogee performed by Merle Haggard

Try to have an inkling of history before displaying your ignorance for all the world to see. Merle Haggard quote;"It started out as a joke. We wrote to be satirical originally. But then people latched onto it, and it really turned into this song that looked into the mindset of people so opposite of who and where we were. My dad's people. He's from Muskogee, you know?" Okie From Muskogee is an easy-going, affectionate satire of his father's generation that in the process perfectly articulates their resentments and fears. At the same time, it harbors (one suspects) a certain amount of secret envy. Today, "Okie" endures as one of the essential songs of the Sixties and as the most important song of Haggard's career.

    ------ About the song Jesus, Take a Hold performed by Merle Haggard

My name is Donat Figuried. I sang in 1969 with Mearl in ET record shop in Nashville,Tn. We were called the Bantam Twins. Gave our hearts to Jesus & He diffently took a hold & is leading us through. Donat

    ------ About the song Somewhere Between (Your Heart And Mine) performed by Merle Haggard

This song tells the story of my late husband and my marriage. We were married for almost fourty years. This in one song we would sing together.
We loved each other very much but we also kept a wall between us.
Merle meant and still means so much to both of us. Thanks for all you have done and still doing for others. God Bless, Johnnie

    ------ About the song Okie from Muskogee performed by Merle Haggard

Allo allo - I fail to understand why someone would find this song 'offensive' -there's absolutely nothing in there to be offended about unless the truth hurts. And furthermore- will you not agree your ' hippie lifestyle 'is respected. All he's said is they don't smoke pot and they have smart haircuts and they don't go in for orgies and that leather boots are 'manly footwear' not sandals and they don't wear beads. All said here is pointing out the difference between people living in Musgogee and San Francisco. So why are you feeling offensive -is it because your attire and behavour has always been a sore point with many people? If you learn to respect other people's opinion as people respect yours - you will have a better comfortable place to live in. Your opinion " I hate that song' is respected. You have a choice to like it or not like it. So just accept the fact that he didn't pick on you or your ' hippie style' but was merely stating ' facts' in a song. Having said all that, I must say that with all his popularity and success, even you will agree that MR Merle Haggard is a real simple terrific songwriter to put these simple words so succintly into a song and make a hit. This mere fact should effect some respect for this man.Am I right to believe you have a love for flowers? So here you go- send him some flowers and be respected for doing so. I wish you well my good friend although I do understand that not everyone finds Country Music fascinating. But the millions that do cannot be wrong,surely. I know I am not wrong. I am good at singing it too ha ha ha ha ................

    ------ About the song San Antonio Rose performed by Merle Haggard

THANK YOU, MERLE1

Merle Haggard is one of the very few that sings the correct lyrics to San Antonio Rose!

Most of them put their words on the internet writing about a "moonlit PASS" by the Alamo.

The Alamo is about 200 yards from the San Antonio River and there is not a PASS any where around. As Merle knows, Tommy Duncan never sang PASS.

    ------ About the song Okie from Muskogee performed by Merle Haggard

Hippies are the reason this country is in the shape it is in. These lyrics may offend your hippie lifestyle but your hippie lifestyle is offensive to me. So as much as you hate this song I hate you .

    ------ About the song Fightin' Side of Me performed by Merle Haggard

This song was written and recorded back in the 60's, but it speaks volumes about what's happening in today's society. What powerful lyrics! I'm sure that many conservatives like myself have wanted to say to the liberals, "You mess with our Constitution, and we're going to fight back! And that's a promise!" If we lose our Constitution, we lose our freedoms. Like the song says, "If you don't love it, leave it." It's as simple as that. Wouldn't all of us conservatives just love to say that to Obama, Pelosi, and Reid's faces? Thank you, Merle Haggard. This song says it all!

    ------ About the song Okie from Muskogee performed by Merle Haggard

This song is just horrible beyond all doubt. Not only is his voice absolutely terrifying, but the words are incredibly offensive to those of us who happen to live a hippie lifestyle. I really just think this song is so not good. Just plain wretched...