I’m a 60 year old man I don’t know how many times I’ve seen mighty Merle. I got to talk with Miss Bonnie Owens. On one Special night. That was the sweetest lady I’ve ever met.🌹🙏 (And How much he meant to me nobody knows ). Vince Gill A world with out Haggard 😢
I miss him a lot Wesley. I'm 5 years your junior, and was raised on his music and other Country Music greats. I had a chance to meet him once in East Stroudsburg PA his bus was parked in the Walmart parking lot he had played in Jim Thorpe PA the night before. It was early and the bus was still and quiet so I let them sleep. I'm sure Merle would've appreciated my being considerate in that way. I have to listen to his music everyday it's good for the soul.
My wife and I saw merle 12 times in our life. The last time was Sept of the year before he died. No one has ever been as good as merle and no one ever will be. Rip merle you were the best
Try reading his book "Sing Me Back Home" it's very good and he wrote it! I bought it as a paperback at a Circle K store. I lent it to a supposedly friend and it was gone, a long with my friend.
You'll never hear anything that will compare to Merle's talent. Whenever I was around Merle, I could just feel the greatest when he walked into the room. Simply the greatest country music singer songwriter ever.
Merle was the best entertainer there ever was, no one will fill his shoes. His music will live on forever. Wish he was still with us ❤ Rest in peace, my friend
Merle Haggard is great but he ain't the king of country, but there he's one of the bad boys at least of california, he's right up there with Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings I love those three they're the best they're the three kings as far as I'm concerned and don't forget all Willie Nelson
@@seanwallin4956 if you had to pick one as king actually you would have to go with hiram Williams, who started it all and for for the sake of fitting in to this conversation his middle name is king.
I am sitting here on this Sunday evening sipping a whiskey, watching my horses eat, and watching the sun set here in beautiful Arizona . This song is the perfect capper. You are missed Hag! Dang it!!!
This is Margaret on My Bobby's phone. I LOVE This Man Beautiful Voice. There will Never be another Merle Haggard. Would Love to hear Noel & Ben Sing this song. They would be wonderful. Noel Lee Haggard Ben Haggard
HE HAS THE MOST AWESOME VOICE I HAVE EVER HEARD, & I HAVE HEARD SO MANY IN 70 plus years. THIS GUY HAS IT ALL. HE Writes the best songs too. To me he is THE BEST.!! There has been no one like him.
SB Baikan yeah I can’t figure it out either. But I can guess it’s the incredible way he holds and closes a verse. Always in perfect tune and perfect pitch. Then we have the smooth and soothing voice. Many things go into it and that’s why it can’t be described.
Loved his music since I was a kid. So nice to just go to u tube and turn his music on for hours. So glad I had the chance to catch his live show in Lubbock Tx before he passed.
What a talent and knack he had for misogynist-heartache numbers! One of the kings of honky tonks hurtin' songs...cheatin', drinkin' songs! No one wrote 'em better!
So beautifull lovecountrysonger and the better guitariste country in this musical perfect interprétation by my Merle unforgettable genius countryboy thruth RIP my love with my heartache forever 👍💯💖😭🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻and sincerely thoughts to merveilleuse Haggardfamily 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉billions love to you in the eternity (2023/06/20) oldwoman from Paris with his heartache forever ❤
Was on a out of job town and walked outta a hotel and Merle walked right by me in Bakersfield California and said "morning" that's the memory that I will alway's cherish
Oh damn ,, I would've face planted into door frame and fell backwards to the ground ! lol. Funny you should say that, back 1970 something, My Father boarded an elevator in LAKE Tahoe and Willie Nelson already standing there. Poor ole tongue tied dadz..lol...!!!! I ripped a Bigg ole TRUCKER fart on elevator by myself and was gagging, AVSOLUTELY WAS A GRAVE CONDITION RED ALERT CODE 3 and thats when YOU KNOW its bad, !!!!!!!! TOXIC SEWER FART !!!!! the doors opened and I SPRUNG to freedom. JUST AS 2 COPS IN UNIFORM BOARDED IT, LMFAO !!! Hey its a dangerous job.!!!!
This is such a great song sung by the Best of the Best, Merle Haggard! There should be a million likes!! Rest in peace Hag with your Lord and Savior! I never met you, but I sure feel like I know you! You surely touched my life!
After listening to this a thousand times easily, Hag still gives me goose bumps. As much as I love many different country singers, only he can do that to me. It’s magical!
He was the complete package musically.....then his life and how he lived, especially the early chapters, gave him the soul that he put in his words and his phrasing.....he was most unique and gifted, we shall never see anyone like him again!
Love his instamatic grin. He would do that at live shows to people up front my wife got a picture of him at a show in denver. He turned and gave her the instamatic grin. She will never forget that and we will never forget the hag. Rip merle you were the ultimate in country music
I Don't remember ever hearing, When Times Were Good" before & Don't know how l missed it because l thought l heard them all. He was the & still is the best. Beautiful song as all of them. Thank God we can still listen to his music. Of course he was good eye candy. I am 78 yrs so l guess l should know by now, even though l could tell that for a long time. Yeah!
@@margaretkiepe4250 I Hear Ya! Almost 74 here and still can't get enough of hearing and watching Merle Haggard. When I get to Heaven I hope to stroll down a mountain road with my family and see and hear him singing 💖🌹🇺🇸🦅🙏
Thank you Merle.....sometimes I wonder if there is a higher power and then I listen to stuff like this and I realize that someone made special people to do special things and you were one of them........
Merle could have been my children's dad I love this man with all my heart and I love until the day I die he has the best voice that ever sang a song Thank You Merle for all these memories
You say that times were good take us back merle to good memories I so glad mom had merle records I would sneak them in my room put on the old record player and listen to a great music that stood alone simple and won melodies