Merle Haggard singing anti-war on Letterman

Syrinx

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Thu Oct-09-03 11:30 PM
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Merle Haggard singing anti-war on Letterman

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Thu Oct-09-03 11:33 PM
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1. its also anti media song, "Thats the News" mentions Peterson etc eom

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Syrinx

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Thu Oct-09-03 11:35 PM
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2. yep. I like that song.

It seems Merle has gotten some wisdom since "Okie From Muskogee(sp)."

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blitzen

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Thu Oct-09-03 11:51 PM
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5. "Okie" revisited

Hag has always been, politically, all over the map--but more left than right. A song in the sixties praising interracial marriage, anti-Nixon songs, lots of pro-labor stuff ("They're Tearing the Labor Camps Down"--about revisiting the shanty town where his Okie parents lived after moving to CA--will bring you to tears, as will "Tulare Dust"). "Okie" is more about the dignity of Okies than it is a right-wing diatribe. Besides, the voice of "Okie" is a fictional persona--Hag himself has always been a pothead.

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regnaD kciN

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Fri Oct-10-03 03:31 AM
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6. True, but...

..."Fightin' Side Of Me" was about as right-wing as they come back in 1970, and basically accused anyone opposed to Vietnam of being both a traitor and a coward who should be driven out of the country.

:grr:

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Jeff in Cincinnati

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Fri Oct-10-03 07:02 AM
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10. I don't know

I hestitate to attempt explication of a Merele Haggard song, but it seems to say that you can disagree, but you'd better not trash-talk America itself.

It seems to be another way of saying that you can hate your government, but you'd better love your country. I can get behind that sentiment.

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Seneca

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Fri Oct-10-03 08:34 AM
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11. people do change

He long ago disavowed that song, and "Okie", as "me being stupid during a time much of the country was stupid about a stupid war."

He does "Okie" in concert with new lyrics. The song was originally written with his Dad's generation in mind.

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Old and In the Way

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Fri Oct-10-03 03:50 AM
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7. Gotta version of the Grateful Dead and the BeachBoys doing Okie.

Kind of different....

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blitzen

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Thu Oct-09-03 11:41 PM
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3. details?

I'm really bummed that I missed the song...caught the 20 second wrap-up at least. Hag, besides being among the greatest singer-songwriters in the history of American music, has distinguished himself by standing up for the Dixie Chicks. Makes me aspire to be an old weed-smoking iconoclast.

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Syrinx

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Thu Oct-09-03 11:48 PM
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4. sample lyrics

"Suddenly it's over, the war is finally done
Soldiers in the desert sand still clinging to a gun
No one is the winner and everyone must lose
Suddenly the war's over, that's the news.
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Politicians do all the talking, soldiers pay the dues
Suddenly the war is over, that's the news."

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Old and In the Way

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Fri Oct-10-03 03:52 AM
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8. I heard it.....I was impressed.

His band was all older guys, too....I mean in their 60s. They sounded pretty tight.

Maybe Merle has birthed himself the anti-war tune for this generation...

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Fri Oct-10-03 04:48 AM
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9. Letterman's been getting some serious antibush cred these day, eh?

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