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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.
Merle Haggard
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Merle Haggard
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: April 6
Died: 2016
Died: April 6
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Bakersfield
California
Merle Ronald Haggard
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Keep your opinions to yourself. I think it's important that I stay neutral on politics and remain hard to understand. I don't want to be pigeonholed as conservative, liberal, independent or anything. I back the man for the things the man believes in, not whether it says R or D down there beside his name.
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Women are God's last creation. You suppose he's saying, What should I do to follow this? Well, it's really a head -scratcher. I think women are absolutely wonderful. I think this world is going to be governed by women.
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The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.
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By the time you get close to the answers, it's nearly all over.
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