The Incredibly Tragic Life Of Merle Haggard 

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I ain't understanding

Hell yeah, what a song

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I’d say that’s the way love goes yk. At least mama tried to tell you better.

You feel this way because you're an outlaw like Merle and me. Were real 1 percenters who don't dig normal

@@americancameramanmedia1309 how am I suppose to live like this when I’m 20 years old in Canada. Ain’t nobody think like me,

I think you just explained why i can't stomach new "country" it's drawn from heartache and lessons learned. Everyone is so sheltered. More boys need to be named sue nowadays.

Country music ain’t the same today it’s not real country music

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I cried when he died too. I’m 26 and from Bakersfield, only a few miles from where he grew up. He was an amazing man. I got to see him on his last tour through Bakersfield, and man was it amazing!

All time best

I agree with both of you! (And I'm 65).

He is the best singer I've heard in my 14 years

Nobody

Juice wrld did LOL no hate

Maybe Dwight Yoakam??

@@Glicksman1 I think I’ll just sit here and wait!

@@cowgirl_406 Not even close!

I wish I would’ve seen him in concert, I could have, but you think they will live forever. In 1970, the first album I ever bought was Merle Haggard and the strangers. I wore that thing out.

@@steveperreira5850 yeah ik what u mean i could of seen Tom Petty and David Bowie but i either didn't have the ca$h or a ride and figured I'll see them next tour. ..but now they're both gone.. 🙏🏻 I hopefully can get to see the Stones if they tour in 2021 or 2022- their 60th year anniversary 🤞🏻

@@ronaldolaquidara64 Dont ever put comments about David Bowie on Merle Haggard tread..

@@davehughesfarm7983 oki Davey whatever u say!! plz don't hunt me down and shoot me or kidnap me to make me feed ur 🐄🐃 and 🐖🐑 on ur farm😬🥺

I know right. Many folks don't get a second chance he did.

Haggard was fantastic i love him and his music

Hey amy merry Christmas

I take it you've never heard of Slim Dusty??

RVZ

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Really good singer sad end thou. I hope haggert believed in almighty God and God son Jesus Christ..😆😎😚

That’s amazing. What an honor. Your band must have been pretty darned good to open for one of the GOATS.

@Alpha Centauri I agree.

You cant make a diamond without heat and pressure.

Listen to his songs. Its clear he was in deep pain, the kind of pain money doesn't fix

@Alpha Centauri tragic would mean that it ended poorly. Through all his struggles he became a legend and quite successful in the end.

@Alpha Centauri tragic and tragedy are not the same word. A tragedy is a noun defined by its finale. So someone can experience a tragedy, like merles imprisonment, his fathers death, cobains death, etc.Whereas tragic is an adjective that would define an individual or a body of work overall. Merle experienced tragedy but was not a tragic person he came out on top. Kurt was tragic bc he died so young and at the top of it all... tragic to lose a talent and a tragedy that he killed himself. In fact, someone who overcomes adversity as in the case of the Hag is consider more of a hero than a tragic individual... lol this is my English degree at play (my parents said it would be useless)

Lol appreciate his art work bro

Your dumb asf for talking shit bout his looks

Heavy smoker.....he was very handsome in his early days.

@@hotdogflavouredmilkshake your are dumb asf for not knowing the difference in "your" and "you're"

@@anderander5662 You are right...my husband is a heavy smoker for the last many, many years, and I'm way older than him (I know, I know..), originally, it looked like I married my 13 year old cousin from Kentucky, now, he looks like my dad! I never smoked, or drank much, so I aged in the face, slower...however, one of the great benefits of being married to the same person for a hundred years is that, you don't see their looks as much as their insides after awhile. What they look like is immaterial compared to their sense of humor, generosity or understanding..also, you become so used to them that it would be a horrible shock if they did suddenly look like a completely different person, no matter how good looking they might become. I did not really hit age until a year or two ago, when I lost my entire family and 2 dogs, due to a series of unrelated tragedies. I went from 35 to 70 in only 12 months, to the point where people who had not seen me in a year actually did not recognize me (for the record, I'm 60, but didn't look it, just whizzed right past middle age into OLD in a few months). I broached the idea of plastic surgery with my husband only once, thinking it must have been weird for him to see me so ravaged in such a short time, but he was completely against it, so strongly that I dropped it. I think he was relieved that we finally looked like a couple of the same age, instead of one of us always at different times being mistaken for the parent of the other....another benefit of a long relationship seems to be that once someone gets used to you, they want you to stay YOU, and not surprise them with a new face...

Stand up for the flag and let's all ring the liberty bell.

Is one of his great songs!

We are rolling right down to hell it seems... glad Merle didnt have to see this...

Are the good times really over?

@@videocast406 yes

Yeah and he died when Merle was 9

Good music attracts good vibes and good quality around 🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶🌲🌲🎅🎅🤶🤶Merry Christmas Debbie

Hello beautiful lady

Because who wants to talk about you or me ? We don't matter to most people we are nobody's to most people so you only here about people that are famous .

Yeah tragic lol Seems like he lived a pretty good life and screwed over some people along the way I like Merle's music but it is what it is

Its not tragic. Everything on this channel is tragic. According to them everybody is flying on broken wings. Im not a subscriber.

He sounds like a class act

@@keithclark486 that's what you got from that not very smart are you ?

Hey Jackie merry Christmas

Did Merle claim Scott as his son?

They got Junior but they ain’t got Hank...

@@bucknaked6111 JUnior was way way better than SR...I know it blashemy but I dont care..

Not trying to take anything away from junior, he had some gigantic shoes to fill and he filled them, his own way. I was just finishing the song lyrics to Long Time Gone...

You are blessed to know him, I was a small boy when I heard some of his tunes on a AM channel! The man was simply epic!

Good observation Michael nothing about hagg was tragic.

The shittiest thing, and yet the best thing, is that we are all individuals, men and women, and we define who we are by what we choose to think, choose to believe, choose to say or not say, choose to do or not do. All of these choices we make, how we choose to treat each other, and choose to interact, defines the world we live in, because we literally create our world. The shittiest thing is that we COULD be choosing, as individuals, and as populations, to be actively involved in making our world a better place to live. The best thing is that we CAN be choosing, as individuals, and as populations, to be actively involved in making our world a better place to live. As shitty as so much is that our corporate media presents to us, daily, I also see more people, especially young people, getting involved in our communities, investing not just a few dollars, but time, effort, and most importantly, the CHOICE to give a shit about the kind of community, and kind of world, in which we live.

Trump is the sorriest excuse for a man in history.

I don’t think Biden is any better sadly we don’t have anyone looking out for the people anymore. No matter who it is it’s all about lining the pockets and making their own life golden

Parents swear out an incorrigibility complaint. I know. They did it to me.

Merle isn’t from Oklahoma lol

Mine born in watson,nearby.

@@terrypollard5618 My husband's mom is from Okemah and dad was from Henryetta. He was a Henryetta Hen. They're now the Henryetta Knights.

Cash murdered a man, that's outlaw

Did Cash really?

@@corir1045 nope, that's untrue.

Yea I know brother, was being a sarcastic prick lol

@@lyleswavel320 cash never murdered anyone but Howlin Wolf killed a man with a shovel

I agree. Luke bryan is a clown

@@rbear4014 he bashed outlaw country he said I don’t run around and I don’t do cocaine therefore I won’t sing outlaw country.

@@aleksanderreljanovic luke is too stupid to understand what outlaw country is. Neither merle or willy were cocaine users. I think deep down inside luke knows he has no talent and no voice so he criticizes the legends.

@@rbear4014 well actually Merle had a severe cocaine problem for about 2 years that almost killed him. He said it himself in an interview. But that still doesn’t matter. Luke bryan is a rip off. Of course he’s making money and he’s a big name in music because his music is selling to younger people who don’t know the roots of the music which is this.

@@aleksanderreljanovic i read just now that he only did it for 5 months in a down period and never did it again. He wrote it in his book.

I like the 'Let Me Tell You About A Song' version of that because you get to hear him explain how it came to be.