Merle Haggard - White Line Fever

[Tarwater03]

This is what real country sounds like. Love the Bakersfield sound.

[Rockinghorserider1]

You should hear Joe Ely's version-it's not on YT and I don't know why.

[towflunky]

I got the fever when I was just a kid now at 43 I had to stop driving because of health issues but I sure miss the road

[beerrunner81]

Only us truckers truly understand this song. No one else does and that's ok.

[itsjanetruth]

I'm dying to hear him sing Out Among the Stars, but this is my next favorite...thank-you so much

[58reddevils]

i have had the fever since 1985. just came off the road last year due to PTSD. I miss it everyday.

[radarman818]

I drove for 40 yrs. Hated it all the time. Expecially the ice. Why any man would do that I just don't know. God I miss it!

[MrTranstar2]

3 Million Miles Safe Driver Still GotThe Fever !!!!!!!!!

[raginroadrunner]

After 40 years in the trucks running the snow packed Rocky Mountains, I can't get them out of my heart. I'm still out there in my dreams..and I'll always be there. It's who I am.

[Tex5x5]

This song's for my buddy "Little Bear." He's put alot'a miles behind him and he's still got the White Line Fever, I know. God bless you David. I know you miss it.-----Tex5x5

[jim3557]

4 Million Miles + since February 1973....I'VE GOT THE FEVER.

[MrJnash59]

@jim3557 , hats off to you jim3557. this country owes the trucker a debt of gratitude for all their hard miles.

[Robbybob761]

god bless truckers

[xxetlil]

almost 3 million miles under my belt and i still got the fever...

[mackman815]

I've just recently become a Merle Haggard fan.  Great voice, haunting song. Thanks, hrtmike17

[EGrdneck]

Dad was a trucker for 26 yrs, he often talked about this song and Bobby Bare's 500 miles away from home.... He had a million miles in 10yrs with no wrecks nor tickets before he left his worthless union trucker job

[expeditenation]

This song is so cool

[goldenjoeblow]

Is it contagious? 

[truckingpopeye58]

nearly 4 million miles and still smiling!!..I GOT THE FEVER!!

[comet773080]

"The wrinkles in my forehead show the miles I've put behind me. They continue to remind me how fast I'm growing old." What words could be more true?

[BrightLightKiddz64]

Now This One Is Great!!!!Love Merle Haggard!!~~~~

[chuckstruck502]

well i am 57 and still love the open road and i will never do anything as long as i live other then drive them old trucks



[rbrick49]

30 years in Australia and I still want to be out there

[robbiewb1]

to my dad who was killed in a head on lorry crash norman love always

ROBBIE XXX

[brookenf83]

Dad, sorry things went the way they did. We miss you so much, this song is you to the TEE. we will never forget you, RIP. we love you, love always, your daughter and grand kids

[faronthefiddler]

My handle was Blue Duck and I was diesel crazy. 1970's.

[marrrkeeee]

The Burritos also did a KILLER uptempo version of this after Gram died. Tnx.

[lizzy0loves0fire]

I think it's something your born with and die with.

[ThisYoungLibertine]

I thought this was about Cocaine until about half ay thru the song lol.

[scotty2mfknhotty]

@ThisYoungLibertine I think it meant both?

[cowboyfan1113]

@ThisYoungLibertine LOL.......thats awesome! Merle did like the coke so it could have had a double meaning.

[a93gmc]

I've been in the trucking industry for over 20 years. Driving, shunting, loading trailers, dispatching and more. It's time I got back behind the wheel again!!

[mayflowergirl73]

a driver only knows, you acidents thank's it a drug...---...be safe

[rocknsixties]

Jesse Ed Davis did the best version of "White Line Fever" (1972 Atlantic Records)

[wvcaseman5665]

Hey PECKERNECK ....most People would"nt Worry about how someone else Spelled Diesel or any other word....Dipshit. Great Song.

[BlindTom61]

This is the original studio version by the writer. Merle kills it live, the best singer on the planet. Well Possum's pretty good too... -L-

[mubbamubba]

the Flying Burrito Bros. do a pretty good version as well

[samkastel13]

david allan coe's version is undoubtedly better

[ToRmAn315]

stick original in this case. this is way better. i am a huge dac fan so you cant blame that lol

[msjr777]

1 million miles and it still fills like a drug you can't live without in your life.and longer the road the better it is till to burns you and you want to go home. but two days later you need it again.MSJR

[gravytrain416]

@msjr777 You're so right. I only drove for a decade, and I've been 'sober' from it for about 2 years. I have times though when I have this craving to get behind the wheel again. It's a habit about as hard to break as smoking.... I know I don't want to do it again, but at the same time I want to SO BAD! Nothing like looking in the mirror and seeing that big long trailer following behind you. Whistle of the turbo, feel of the wheel, sound of the brakes. God, I miss it....

[rickheft]

it's a trucking song you idiot's.if you drive you have the fever! two million many mile's.think before you drive!!!!

[crewsader100]

sigh i guess so still still think were pill popping idiots but any trucker knows about this fever even after 5 million miles 2 strokes and going blind in one eye (it took me off the road) i still wake late at night wishing i was still out there in the wind running from sun to sun

its a fever with no cure. but a big rig under your ass and the roar of a desil in your ears is the only treatment

[samkastel13]

you would think a truckdriver could spell diesel

[stitely]

yeah man!!! it reminds me of my uncle 35 yrs truckin....they found him dead behind the wheel.....

[aeroshine]

If you have to explain it to them, they wouldn't have a clue anyway.

[Bullhaulinglady]

Amen

[lindirig]

My wife and I have a chronic case of this and the only medicine that helps is a jaunt out to Yellowstone or beyond.

Lindy

[countrymusicgtavboy2]

i love the opening of the song

and the whole song

[jturner26201]

wonder how many more years i will live this song

[patrickfromlytton]

When I listen to this song, I consider Merle singing about the "truckin" industry like Red Sovine does but I always heard a metaphor for the addictions that human beings can put themselves through as well. I guess I'll die with this fever in my soul.

[jbmal23]

the bard of the bar room

[fernnation]

probably about touring, traveling, truck driving, but translates to cocaine too. Deep to make it your own meaning.

[Username7260]

this is about cocaine ?

[flyboymd82]

Its about trucking. "miles I've put behind me", "been from coast to coast a hundred times or so"..........

[countrymusicgtavboy2]

it not about coccaine

[Jamaicanredfire]

True Classic. A sickness born within my doul.

[BloodNGutts]

Oh yeah baby, the great Man of Country.

[rickhorror]

*tears up*

[mtmforever1]

i love the hag

[RockyMountainRose]

I have always liked this song. Did Merle write this White Line Fever?

[hrtmike17]

He sure did write this song. I'm sorry, I know alot about all these songs but too lazy to type it up haha. I will for now on try to include that information!

[dacordova]

I prefer the "Live in Muskogee Oklahoma" version. One of Merles sons...I believe it's Noel Haggard, who tries to sing this song and destroys it. Merles son might look alot like him....but they definitely can't sing like him.

[RoadNasty]

The Flying Burrito Brothers did I believe - Gram Parsons in particular.