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Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good.
Merle Haggard
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Merle Haggard
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: April 6
Died: 2016
Died: April 6
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Singer-Songwriter
Bakersfield
California
Merle Ronald Haggard
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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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No, it's not love, but it's not bad.
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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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I've got two families.
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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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Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well just do old songs. But if you get one that's paying attention, sometimes we'll do some new material.
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I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some.
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