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Stop rolling down hill like a snow ball headed for hell.

Merle Haggard

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Merle Haggard
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: April 6
Died: 2016
Died: April 6
Country Musician
Guitarist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Bakersfield
California
Merle Ronald Haggard
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Balls
Hell
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Headed
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Hill
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Hills
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It makes my wife mad, you know, she wants me to stay home all the time. But its what I've done all my life and I think when I quit doing it I'll probably go away pretty quick.
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Momma tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied, and that leaves only me to blame, cause Momma tried.
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We are under [government's] control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't thought about it.
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Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would.
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I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some.
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