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I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some.

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
Back
Surgery
Helped
Feet

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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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Stop rolling down hill like a snow ball headed for hell.
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We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee, we don't take trips on LSD. We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street, we like living right and free.
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When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.
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If I had a choice, and there was a Y in the road, I would always take the one that was more fun as opposed to the one that might make me more money.
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The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.
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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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We're bar room buddies and we're the best kind, nobody messes with that friend of mine. Chug-a-lug-a-lug-a-lugga, bar room buddy of mine.
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I probably wouldn't even be here now if it weren't for chiropractic
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It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true I was raised in a freight car.
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There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.
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It's a long way from Graceland across Jordan to the Promised Land, but Jesus finally came to lead him home.
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I've got two families.
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My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.
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I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.
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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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When you get to readin' about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go the more interesting it becomes.
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At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?
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Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would.
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