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Posted on 4/6/16 at 2:32 pm to I B Freeman
My grandpappy called me a few hours ago and told me he has passed on. Called him the working man's poet. RIP
Posted on 4/6/16 at 2:33 pm to Langland
Couldn't have said it better, salute!!!!!!
Posted on 4/6/16 at 2:33 pm to DelU249
quote:
David Allan Coe died?
Wut?
Posted on 4/6/16 at 2:35 pm to Zach
SAD! HUGE SHAME!
too bad there isn't a board to discuss music and musicians..
too bad there isn't a board to discuss music and musicians..
Posted on 4/6/16 at 2:37 pm to Zach
RIP Merle. Some of his lyrics still apply today:
I wish a buck was still silver
It was back when the country was strong
Back before Elvis
Before the Vietnam war came along
Before The Beatles and 'Yesterday'
When a man could still work, still would
The best of the free life behind us now
And are the good times really over for good?
Are we rolling down hill
Like a snowball headed for Hell?
With no kind of chance
For the Flag or the Liberty Bell
Wish a Ford and a Chevy
Could still last ten years, like they should
Is the best of the free life behind us now?
Are the good times really over for good?
I wish Coke was still Cola
And a joint was a bad place to be
It was back before Nixon lied to us all on TV
Before microwave ovens
When a girl could still cook and still would
The best of the free life behind us now
Are the good times really over for good?
I wish a buck was still silver
It was back when the country was strong
Back before Elvis
Before the Vietnam war came along
Before The Beatles and 'Yesterday'
When a man could still work, still would
The best of the free life behind us now
And are the good times really over for good?
Are we rolling down hill
Like a snowball headed for Hell?
With no kind of chance
For the Flag or the Liberty Bell
Wish a Ford and a Chevy
Could still last ten years, like they should
Is the best of the free life behind us now?
Are the good times really over for good?
I wish Coke was still Cola
And a joint was a bad place to be
It was back before Nixon lied to us all on TV
Before microwave ovens
When a girl could still cook and still would
The best of the free life behind us now
Are the good times really over for good?
Posted on 4/6/16 at 2:38 pm to Zach
Crushing. Not many left to look up to in that music genre.
Listen live to Merle's complete library non-stop until 7 if you like.
104.1 The Ranch, Tyler
Posted on 4/6/16 at 2:40 pm to Sao
Momma tired.
Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes.
Peace to the Haggard family.
Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes.
Peace to the Haggard family.
This post was edited on 4/6/16 at 3:54 pm
Posted on 4/6/16 at 2:46 pm to Spaulding Smails
quote:
too bad there isn't a board to discuss music and musicians.
The man had 40 #1 hits and his career spanned 6 decades, show some damn respect.
This post was edited on 4/6/16 at 2:47 pm
Posted on 4/6/16 at 2:48 pm to bamarep
Thank you! 
Posted on 4/6/16 at 2:53 pm to Spaulding Smails
quote:
too bad there isn't a board to discuss music and musicians..
Man was a legend - he's bigger than the music board.
Posted on 4/6/16 at 3:01 pm to Zach
No worries Zach. Bamarep will bitchslap someone over the Hag. It's personal with me and goes back to my childhood spending time with my old man at the hunting camp learning all Hag's songs by the time I was 10 or so.
Bamarep will def crank up the Hag on the outside speakers tonight and enjoy a George Dickel in memory while in the hot tub with my beautiful wife.
I hope everyone that realizes what an icon America lost today will have one with me.
Posted on 4/6/16 at 3:14 pm to Zach
RIP Merle
Finally drinking that free bubble up and eating rainbow stew.
Finally drinking that free bubble up and eating rainbow stew.
Posted on 4/6/16 at 3:27 pm to Zach
quote:
Muskogee, Okla
They have a great rib joint there, and the wind blows- a lot. I spent 5 or 6 weeks there for business one time, and I didn't leave anything behind that I would have to go back to get.
Posted on 4/6/16 at 3:31 pm to JuiceTerry
"H is for Haggard"
Amen to that. "H" will always be for "Haggard."
Amen to that. "H" will always be for "Haggard."
Posted on 4/6/16 at 3:39 pm to N.O. via West-Cal
This is how Themole feels: LINK
Posted on 4/6/16 at 3:40 pm to Spaulding Smails
"too bad there isn't a board to discuss music and musicians.."
You poor, benighted soul. We gather on this cyber-board to discuss such topics as poverty, crime and punishment, immigration, war, and the loss and redemption of America, and we do it from all points on the political spectrum. Merle lived almost all of that, and wrote and sang about the rest. "Okie from Muskogee" and "Are the Good Times Really Over for Good?", all by themselves, justify this virtual wake on this board. So repent, you sinner, and raise a whiskey (preferably George Dickel or a CC Waterback if you must) with the rest of us sinners to an American legend lost but not forgotten.
You poor, benighted soul. We gather on this cyber-board to discuss such topics as poverty, crime and punishment, immigration, war, and the loss and redemption of America, and we do it from all points on the political spectrum. Merle lived almost all of that, and wrote and sang about the rest. "Okie from Muskogee" and "Are the Good Times Really Over for Good?", all by themselves, justify this virtual wake on this board. So repent, you sinner, and raise a whiskey (preferably George Dickel or a CC Waterback if you must) with the rest of us sinners to an American legend lost but not forgotten.
Posted on 4/6/16 at 3:43 pm to Themole
Themole ain't the only one with Brain Cloudy Blues this afternoon. 
Posted on 4/6/16 at 3:47 pm to Spaulding Smails
Merle on Okie From Muskogee:
Which is why the Poli Board is an appropriate place to pay respect to this great American.
R.I.P. Merle
quote:
Haggard called the song a "documentation of the uneducated that lived in America at the time."[
quote:
"I wrote it when I recently got out of the joint. I knew what it was like to lose my freedom, and I was getting really mad at these protesters. They didn't know anything more about the war in Vietnam than I did. I thought how my dad, who was from Oklahoma, would have felt. I felt I knew how those boys fighting in Vietnam felt."
quote:
"My dad passed away when I was nine, and I don't know if you've ever thought about somebody you've lost and you say, 'I wonder what so-and-so would think about this?' I was drivin' on Interstate 40 and I saw a sign that said "19 Miles to Muskogee." Muskogee was always referred to in my childhood as 'back home.' So I saw that sign and my whole childhood flashed before my eyes and I thought, 'I wonder what dad would think about the youthful uprising that was occurring at the time, the Janis Joplins...I understood 'em, I got along with it, but what if he was to come alive at this moment? And I thought, what a way to describe the kind of people in America that are still sittin' in the center of the country sayin', 'What is goin' on on these campuses?'"
Which is why the Poli Board is an appropriate place to pay respect to this great American.
R.I.P. Merle
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