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I've got two families.

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
Families
Two

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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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Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would.
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'Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don't teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is.
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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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Hey, hey, the working man, the working man like me. I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be.
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Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people it's important to me that I play good.
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And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.
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By the time you get close to the answers, it's nearly all over.
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I probably wouldn't even be here now if it weren't for chiropractic
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In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.
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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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The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.
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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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Stop rolling down hill like a snow ball headed for hell.
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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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HAG Records, is a company that I've owned. I've had a couple of gospel releases on it. We developed a pretty good distribution setup there and we do have something to use in case they don't want to sign us.
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Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free.
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Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.
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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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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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